Adventures of an Aide-De-Camp; or, a Campaign in Calabria, Volume 1 (of 3)

LONDON: SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., CORNHILL. 1848.

I.—The Landing in Calabria II.—The Pigtail III.—The Visconte Santugo IV.—Double or Quit V.—Truffi the Hunchback VI.—The Calabrian Free Corps VII.—The Battle of Maida VIII.—The Cottage.—Capture of the Eagle IX.—Lives for Ducats!—Bianca D'Alfieri X.—A Night with the Zingari XI.—The Hunchback Again! XII.—The Hermitage XIII.—The Hermit's Confession XIV.—The Siege Of Crotona XV.—The Abduction.—A Scrape XVI.—The Summons of Surrender XVII.—Marching 'Out' with the Honours of War XVIII.—Another Dispatch XIX.—Narrative of Castelermo XX.—The Villa Belcastro XXI.—Sequel to the Story of Castelermo

The very favourable reception given by the Press and Public generally, to "The Romance of War," and its "Sequel," has encouraged the Author to resume his labours in another field.

Often as scenes of British valour and conquest have been described, the brief but brilliant campaign in the Calabrias (absorbed, and almost lost, amid the greater warlike operations in the Peninsula) has never, he believes, been touched upon: though a more romantic land for adventure and description cannot invite the pen of a novelist; more especially when the singular social and political ideas of those unruly provinces are remembered.