Harry, will you listen to reason? This won't do! She's of the true hidalgo class! What can you do with such a girl?''Do with her? I'm going to marry her!'Shot-proof, fever-proof and a veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellington's army. Yet at the siege of Badajos, his friends foretell the ruin of his career- with the selfsame ardour he so frequently displays in battle, Harry dives headlong into marriage. In his beautiful child-bride, he finds a kindred spirit, and a temper to match. But for Juana, along year of war must follow...