Fascinating. Thank you. My book shelves used to be full of geography books but they're rapidly being replaced by history books. I think it would have been much better if we'd been taught history at school as it affected our ancestors rather than nations. Not sure how it could have been done but, IMO, much more interesting. Susan On 09/09/2010 21:30, Anthony M. Carter wrote: > Harts Army List 1840 under 96th Regiment of Foot. Footnote attached to Paymaster Edwin Griffiths: > Paymaster Griffiths served the campaigns of 1813 and 14 in the Peninsula, Served also in the American war, including the capture of Washington; battle before Baltimore, and the several operations on the coast. Present during the several attacks upon the enemy's lines before New Orleans. In the batteries upon the banks of the Mississippi at the blowing up of a man-of-war schooner. Taking of Fort Boyer. > Plenty of history here. Anthony > >