Rifles: Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters (46 page)

Abrantes
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Agueda river
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Albuera
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Aldea Velha
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Alemada
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Alemtejo province
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Allen, Private Humphrey
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Almaraz
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Almeida fortress
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Almond, Private Joseph
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fights against the Spaniards in South

America
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loses corporal’s stripes
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field days at Campo Maior
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unable to regain his stripes
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worn out
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considers desertion
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deserts
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inducted into the French Army
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Ciudad Rodrigo
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escapes from Rodrigo
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captured and executed after a trial
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Alps
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Alten, Major General von

new commander of the Light Division
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programme of marches, firing practice

and field days
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row over firewood
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efforts to catch the French at Yanzi
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on the Rhune
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Waterloo
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American War of Independence
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Arbuthnott, Lieutenant Duncan
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Arcangues
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Ariñez
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Army of Portugal
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Arruda
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Atalaya
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Atlantic Ocean
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Austerlitz, battle of
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Austrians: locked in battle with Napoleon
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Badajoz fortress
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Wellington resolves to take it quickly
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firing on the trenches
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compared with Rodrigo
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sniping
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Forlorn Hope
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storming party
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rope party
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defences
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a ravelin stormed in error
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heavy losses
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3rd Division succeed in their attack
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plunder and rape
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casualties
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anger of Light Division officers
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the aftermath
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Baillie, Lieutenant
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Baixa Beira
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Baker rifle
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rifles

Ballard, Corporal George
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Baller, George
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Baltic expedition (1807)
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Bandle, Tom
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Barba del Puerco
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Ferey leads the attack on
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Mercer’s death
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Beckwith’s reinforcements
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French flee across the bridge
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casualties
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success of
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reorganisation after
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Barclay, Lieutenant Colonel
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Barnard, General Andrew
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joins the Light Division
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senior to O’Hare
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Ciudad Rodrigo
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in charge of the Light Division
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Badajoz
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Kempt replaces
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commands 1st/95th
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ambition
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Vitoria
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confidence
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wounded at the Nivelle
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reappears at Arcangues
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Tarbes
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gives Simmons a gold watch
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leads his battalion to Hilsea Barracks
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ordered to prepare 1st/95th for

embarkation (1815)
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the Pitt affair
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offers to share his billet with Simmons
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Waterloo
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promotion
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Barossa, Battle of
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Barquilla
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Bassussarry ridge
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bayonet, the
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Bechaud, Colonel Jean-Pierre
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Beckwith, Charlie
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Beckwith, General Sidney
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a natural leader
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understands soldiers’ mentality
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his approach compared with Crauford’s
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seeks qualities of initiative in riflemen
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and Plunket’s flogging
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at Barba del Puerco
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restructures his battalion
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Combat of the Coa
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and the wounded officers
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Busaco
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friendship with Simmons
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at Redinha
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Foz de Arouce
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at Sabugal
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and promotions
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and Layton
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pleads Simmons’ case for promotion
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returns home with Guadiana fever
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Barnard to replace
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saves Cummings
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unable to resume command of 1/95
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and Almond’s fate
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sent on service to America
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regimental wives ban
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use of incentives
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Beira frontier
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Belem Barracks
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Belem Rangers
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Bell, Major General
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Bell, Lieutenant Thomas
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Betts, Sergeant Tuttle
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Bidassoa defence line
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Bidassoa River
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Black Legion
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Black Watch (42nd Highlanders)
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Blakiston, Major
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Blanco, Lazarro
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Blucher, Field Marshal
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Blues
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Board of Ordnance
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Bordeaux
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Boveda River
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British army units

1st Division: at Talavera
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; Fuento

d’Onoro
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; Guards
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; King’s German Legion
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1st Dragoons
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2nd Rifles
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2nd Royal Surrey Militia
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3rd Division
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3rd Hussars
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4th Division
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5th Division
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7th West Indian Regiment
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10th Hussars
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13th Royal Veteran Battalion
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14th Light Dragoons
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27th Inniskilling Regiment
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42nd Highlanders (Black Watch)
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