For the first time the entire collection of the marvellous diaries, letters, accounts, maps and drawings from Major-General Sir Alexander Dickson, GCB, KCH, RA has been published from archive sources in an eleven-volume set. They provide one of the best and most comprehensive interpretations of life as an officer in the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars as well as the period post Waterloo. The main set commences in 1794 and ends in 1840 with those prior based on notes compiled for Dickson by Captain RH Ord RA, his personal staff officer.