Rifles: Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters (52 page)

Sabugal, Battle of
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Beckwith’s Right Wing fords an icy river
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dense fog
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Wellington’s plan
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Simmons’ company faces a French regiment

and runs
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British heavily outnumbered
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French howitzers shoots canister into the

British line
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furious British advance
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French withdrawal
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casualties
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Saint Benoit redoubt
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Salamanca
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Battle of
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San Felices
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San Francisco redoubt
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San Miguel ridge
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San Millan valley
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San Munoz
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San Sebastian
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Sanchez, Don Julian
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Sandgate
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Santa Barbera
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Santa Cruz
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Santa Maria bastion, Badajoz
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Santa Marta breach, Badajoz
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Santarem
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Sarsfield, Second Lieutenant Thomas
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Sebastiani, General
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sharpshooters
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Sherbrooke, General
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shooting practice
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Shorncliffe camp, Kent
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Short, Private
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Sierra de Busaco
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see also
Busaco, Battle of

Sierra de Gata
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Sierra de Guadalupe
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Sierra de Segurilla
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Sierra d’Estrella
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Simmons, Second Lieutenant George
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embarks from Dover (May 1809)
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his militia regiment
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financial motives
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Battle of Talavera
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told to arrest the provost marshal
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field days at Campo Maior
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Guadiana fever
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and O’Hare
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attack on Barba del Puerco
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Combat of the Coa
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wounded
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returns to 3rd Company
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friendship with Beckwith
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at Cazal Noval
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promotion issue
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Sabugal
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Sarsfield affair
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commands the 5th Company
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Ciudad Rodrigo
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Badajoz
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battalion reorganisation
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his pack mule
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worried about brother Joseph
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seeks promotion
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training
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Vitoria
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row over firewood
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the Nivelle
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and the wounded Barnard
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Tarbes
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the fortunes of war
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blood money due to him
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returns to London
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oversees the companies
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goes to 10th Company
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the Pitt affair
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on entering Brussels
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Quatre Bras
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refuses Barnard’s offer of a billet
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Waterloo
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comes through the Belgian campaign

with honour
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eventually gets his own company
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marriage
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writes about Fairfoot
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journals and letters
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in retirement
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Simmons, Joseph
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Simmons, Lieutenant Maud
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Simon, General
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‘Sir John Moore’s System’
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Skerrett, Major General John
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skulkers
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Smith, General Harry
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buys his commission
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a natural gentleman
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wounded at the Coa
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helps organise a party of the wounded
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hunger for advancement
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convalescents’ march to the lines of

Torres Vedras
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in pain from ball in his heel
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commands 2nd Company at Redinha
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Sabugal
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becomes Brigade Major
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Ciudad Rodrigo
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deserters’ executions
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Badajoz
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marriage
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dislikes Skerrett
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the Nive
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Castel Sarrazin
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sails for America
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