War Diaries (October 13) (nonfiction)
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War Diary entries for October 13
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Benjamin Gilbert: October 13, 1780
You cannot conceive how disagreeable time itself appeared to me on my first arrival in Camp having Just left the rural enjoyments of Domestick life, and obliged to conform to the strick regulations and implicit obedience of a Military government, but this being become habitual and familiar I am tolerable reconciled to my present situation.
—Benjamin Gilbert, soldier (letter to Rufus Hamilton)
- Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
George Beck: October 13, 1944
Feeling a little better but cannot move, in agony when the dressings are changed, tube in my side, and bad chest through ether.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
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- Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
- http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm