Title: A call to arms
Description: 1819 sees Hervey in Rome with his sister Elizabeth where a chance meeting with Percy Bysshe Shelley leads him to rethink his future. Soon he is en route for Hounslow via Whitehall where he hurriedly purchases a new commission and is refitted for the uniform of the 6th Light Dragoons.
Subjects: Fiction, English, History, Officers, Matthew Hervey (Fictitious character), Great Britain. Army. Light Dragoons, 6th
Places: India
People: Matthew Hervey (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 19th century