Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot - Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1688, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848 #232974

The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend upon the zeal and ardour by which all who enter into its service are animated, and consequently it is of the highest importance that any measure calculated to excite the spirit of emulation, by which alone great and gallant actions are achieved.