Download or read book Soldiers of the Queen written by Harold Avery and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle was nearly over. Gallant tin soldiers of the line lay where they had fallen; nearly the whole of a shilling box of light cavalry had paid the penalty of rashly exposing themselves in a compact body to the enemy's fire; while a rickety little field-gun, with bright red wheels, lay overturned on two infantry men, who, even in death, held their muskets firmly to their shoulders, like the grim old "die-hards" that they were.