by A D Swanston
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The story of the button seller, or ‘the cob man’, was one the Duke of Wellington himself liked to tell.
Several contemporary accounts mention the French drummer boy who managed to get into the Hougoumont farm.
The names of neither the button seller nor the drummer boy are known.
Acknowledgements
I thank my agent, David Headley of DHH Literary Agency, for encouraging me to put these stories on paper, and my editor, Rebecca Lloyd of The Dome Press, for her expert advice.
First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by The Dome Press
This edition published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Canelo
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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