Excerpt from History of the 45th, 1st Nottinghamshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters) When I was asked some years later by Colonel Hume, who had succeeded to the command of the regiment, to complete the work for press, I found the task as light as it was con genial. The admirable work done by Admiral Colomb was handed over to me, and I had only to select from the material collected by him such facts as I considered essential to a true and succinct account of the doings of the regiment, and after verification to arrange them in the form in which they now appear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.