Captain Borrow followed his regiment from place to place, and his family accompanied him on these journeys.

Dover, Colchester, Sandgate, Canterbury, Chelmsford--these are some of the towns where the Borrows sojourned.

It was the merest accident--the Peace of Amiens, to be explicit--that led them back to East Dereham in 1803, so that the second son was born in his grandfather's house.

George was only a month old when he was carried off to Colchester; in 1804 he was in the barracks of Kent, in 1805 of Sussex, in 1806 at Hastings, in 1807 at Canterbury, and so on.

The indefatigable Dr.Knapp has recorded every detail for all who love the minute, the meticulous, in biography.