Title: A close run thing
Description: Matthew Hervey is a young cornet in the Sixth Light Dragoons during the final days of the Napoleonic Wars. Soldier and gentleman, though lacking independent means and influence, Hervey finds himself faced with questions, both military and romantic, which will carve out his destiny.
Subjects: Fiction, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Politics and government, Great Britain. Army. Light Dragoons, Great Britain
Places: Ireland
Time periods: 1800-1837