Duel and Duality Book 1 of Poacher s ProgressChapter 3 Bordeaux
Our division took Bordeaux without firing a shot, and it was here that I met my nemesis, Lieutenant Jarvis Braxton-Clark. I had scarcely noticed him when he first joined the battalion, along with other replacements for men lost during the campaign, as I had my hands full with matters other than a newly arrived officer. Captain Gurney Slade, my company commander, had been wounded at the Nivelle but had carried on in command, although in some considerable pain. Soon after our arrival at...