&quot;The Young Buglers&quot; is a fascinating (and often hilarious) adventure written by George Alfred Henty.&nbsp;<br />The novel tells the story of two young English boys, Tom and Peter Scudamore, who are buglers for an English regiment in Portugal and serve with distinction during the hard-fought battles of the Peninsular War, a military conflict between Napoleon&#39;s empire and Bourbon Spain (assisted by the United Kingdom and its ally, Portugal) for control of the Iberian Peninsula.