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This is pre-Peninsula, but I found it interesting:
Radipole Barracks, 31 January 1806
... I get up in the morning precisely at eight, attire myself in my gaudy trappings, and go to my beautiful chestnuts*, turn out for their walking exercise after that I go to the mess room and read the papers, from thence my own room where I find breakfast ready set out, play a pretty good part there as you remamber & from that till twelve I invariably devote to my studies. At twelve I go round & inspect every table, and all my troop appointments, see that the rooms &c are clean & that the cooks have got everything for the men's dinners, at one I mount my Pegasus & take lessons in the school until its time to dress for evening parade. This lasts till four o'clock, from then till five (the present hour) I generally if unmolested write letters or something; find a good dinner in the mess room at five, go round stables at seven, drink tea at nine & go to bed at ten.
(* All of the horses in the regiment had to be chestnut in colour)
From "From Corunna to Waterloo" edited by Gareth Glover
Radipole Barracks, 31 January 1806
... I get up in the morning precisely at eight, attire myself in my gaudy trappings, and go to my beautiful chestnuts*, turn out for their walking exercise after that I go to the mess room and read the papers, from thence my own room where I find breakfast ready set out, play a pretty good part there as you remamber & from that till twelve I invariably devote to my studies. At twelve I go round & inspect every table, and all my troop appointments, see that the rooms &c are clean & that the cooks have got everything for the men's dinners, at one I mount my Pegasus & take lessons in the school until its time to dress for evening parade. This lasts till four o'clock, from then till five (the present hour) I generally if unmolested write letters or something; find a good dinner in the mess room at five, go round stables at seven, drink tea at nine & go to bed at ten.
(* All of the horses in the regiment had to be chestnut in colour)
From "From Corunna to Waterloo" edited by Gareth Glover
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I alway enjoy stumbling across these everyday 'working life' tidbits... people were not dashing around being heroic at all times ;) - they had chores and lessons and letter writing times.
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I see that he had 10 hours in bed every night ....
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