THE Drummer BOY\'S BATTLE, Introducing Florence Nightingale -- After their father dies, Robbie Robinson and his older brother, Peter, join the British army in order to make a living for their family.
But the brothers are separated during the doomed charge of the Light Brigade, and Robbie fea.
Then in 1854, they are sent to Russia to right in the Crimean War-Peter as a member of the famous Light Horse Brigade and twelve-year-old Robbie as a Drummer boy.
At first, army life is exciting, even fun.
THE Drummer BOY\'S BATTLE, Introducing Florence Nightingale -- After their father dies, Robbie Robinson and his older brother, Peter, join the British army in order to make a living for their family