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Corporal Bridoon

Corporal in Colonel Gardiner's regiment.

minor

Also known as Bridoon

First appearance: part ii vi a volunteer sixty years since

Corporal Bridoon shows up with force in A Journey to London. The page is where that presence becomes real.

A drunken dragoon corporal encountered at Ferrybridge; Mrs.
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See Corporal Bridoon in part ii vi a volunteer sixty years since

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EWEdward WaverleyCTColonel TalbotARAunt RachelHHHumphry HoughtonSESir Everard Wa…CBCorporal Bridoon

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  • Minor and Historical Figures
  • Protagonist
  • Central Jacobite and Waverley Circle

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See Corporal Bridoon in part ii vi a volunteer sixty years since