Rifles: Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters (53 page)

promotion
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Smith, Juana Dolores (
née
de Leon)
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Smith, Lieutenant Tom
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Somerset, Lord Fitzroy
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Soult, Marshal Jean de Dieu
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appointed to reorganise Napoleon’s

southern armies
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his prediction
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on British method of firing at officers
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Nivelle
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falls back on Toulouse
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and desertions
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Battle of Toulouse
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appears sullen and dejected
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South America
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,
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South Lincoln Regiment of Militia
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,
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Spencer, Lord Charles
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Stewart, Sir Charles
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Stewart, Colonel
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Stewart, Captain the Hon. James
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Stewart, Major
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Stewart, Sir William
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,
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Stratton, Private George
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Suchet, Marshal
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Sula
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Surrey
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Surtees, Quarter Master William
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Tagus River
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Talavera
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Talavera, Battle of (28 July 1809)
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Wellington chooses his position with

care
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French advance under Lapisse and

Sebastiani
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French aim to unsettle British troops
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successful British musket shooting
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fresh French defences
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victory with heavy losses
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,
2

the 95th observe the consequences of the

battle
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,
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Craufurd’s distress at arriving too late
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Tarbes, Battle of
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,
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Tarn River
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Times, The
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tirailleurs
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,
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Tirailleurs
de
Siège
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Torrens, Major General Sir Henry
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Field Exercise and Evolutions of the

Army
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Torres Vedras
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,
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Toulouse
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,
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Tower of London
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Travers brothers
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Treacy, Tom
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,
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Trespuentes bridge
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Trinidad bastion, Badajoz, La
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,
2

Turon stream
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,
2

Tyrolean montagnards
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Underwood, Sergeant Daniel
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2

Uniacke, Eliza
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2

Uniacke, Captain John
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United Service Club
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United Service Journal
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,
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United States of America: declares war (Jun 1 1812)
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Val Puesta
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Vallada
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Vandeleur, Major General John
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Vandermaesen, General Lubin-Martin
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Vera pass
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,
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Verdun prison
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Verner, Colonel Willoughby
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-
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Victoria, Queen
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Villa Nueva
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Ville de Paris
(battleship)
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Villodas bridge
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,
2
,
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Vimiero, Battle of
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Vitoria
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,
2

Army moves ahead in three great

columns
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outflanking movements
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Wellington orders the attack
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Barnard’s successful gamble
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heavy firing from French cannon
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first French gun captured
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emphatic British triumph
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plundering
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,
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French rearguard
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Vogt, Captain
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voltigeurs
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Waterloo, Battle of
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British position
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Napoleon’s position
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casualties
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,
2
,
3

cuirassiers
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,
2
,
3

British cavalry charge
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Duthilt’s temporary capture
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French gain possession of La Haye

Sainte farm
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,
2

defeat of the Imperial Guard
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arrival of the Prussians
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Colborne’s success
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Wellington’s victory
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the 95th’s conduct
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,
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,
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use of the bayonet
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Waterloo medal
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W.D.B. (writer in the
United Service
Journal
)
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Weddeburne, Sergeant William
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,
2

Wellesley, Lieutenant General Sir Arthur

see
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, lst

Duke of

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
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in Denmark
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commands the British forces in the

Iberian Peninsula
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and Craufurd’s qualifications
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Talavera
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and British Army principles
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withdrawal of
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and thefts from civilians
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and teaching soldiers to read and write
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reason for keeping his army at the

Guadiana
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and Craufurd’s observing parties
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brief 1808 campaign
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Craufurd lobbies for more exciting mis

sions
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Combat of the Coa
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chooses to keep Craufurd
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and skulkers
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Busaco
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retires to Torres Vedras
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treatment of Portuguese people and

property
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,
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his lines of fortifications in the Peninsula
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warns Craufurd
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and Craufurd’s return to England
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and Erskine
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supervision of the Light Division
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at Foz de Arouce
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Sabugal
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Fuentes d’Onoro
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and gentleman volunteers
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,
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clashes with Craufurd
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,
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announces winter quarters (1811)
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and desertion
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,
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supply shortages
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Ciudad Rodrigo
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,
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Crawfurd’s funeral
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Badajoz
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General Orders
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,
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Salamanca
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emergence as an offensive commander
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evacuates Madrid
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watches
The Rivals
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reviews the Light Division
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his caution
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Vitoria
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changing size of his forces
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angry letter to the Light Division
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and the Bidassoa line
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,
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ready to enter France
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Tarbes
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,
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strict orders against pillaging the French
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Quatre Bras
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2

Waterloo
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Mitchell on his tactics
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view of the British recruit
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Wensley
Dale
(packet boat)
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,
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West Indian Rangers
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