Napoleonic Lives: Researching the British Soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars by Carole Divall

Author:Carole Divall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: REF013000; REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry
ISBN: 9781781597538
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
Published: 2012-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

Trooper,15th Hussars. (Philip Haythornthwaite)

This was a positive interlude in an otherwise depressing period:

The men rode the horses as long as they could carry them, they then got off and with the flat of their swords beat them along, and when unable to go further they took off their kit and their cloaks and shot them.6

Cruelly and ironically, the lack of nails for horseshoes which caused most of this loss could have been avoided if the stores at Corunna had been brought to the troops.

After passing through Bembibre, where the wine vats were broached with disastrous consequences, the route took Moore’s army through the mountains, where cavalry was of little use. Their position at the rear was taken by the infantry. Misbehaviour continued. On 4 January a man of the 7th was shot for plundering. They were marching day and night, many of them on foot:

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