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THE PENINSULAR WAR MEDIANS

... THE PENINSULAR WAR MEDIANS. ; Names of the Recipients Manchester Medals for services in the Peninsular campaigns, from 1793 to 1814 are now being distributed amongst the veterans resident in the Manchester districts, Nos. 1 ' and 2. We Rave a description ...

Published: Wednesday 23 May 1849
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3117 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ITHE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.— Sir Arthur Wellesley, says Colonel Napier, in his History of the Peninsular War, had now

... ITHE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.— Sir Arthur Wellesley, says Colonel Napier, in his History of the Peninsular War, had now (after the battle of Talavera) experienced the weakness of his friends and the strength of his enemies, and he felt all the emptiness ...

Published: Monday 24 August 1829
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4841 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SUICIDE OF A WATERLOO VETERAN

... Samuel Harris, aged forty-nine, late a surgeon in ihe 7th Hussars (in which regiment he served during the whole of the Peninsular war), who put period to his existence under the following determined and melancholy circumstance: It appeared from the evidence ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1836
Newspaper: Westmorland Gazette
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The captured Eagles

... captured Eagles. The Eagles recently deposited at Whitehall, appeared somewhat of a larger size than those captured in the Peninsular war ; they were richly gilt, and bore the number of the battalions which they were attached. The silk colours appended to ...

Published: Tuesday 06 February 1816
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE 85th AND 28th REGIMENTS

... immediately sunk. It is but justice to say, that they were extremely well-cunducted during tueir sojourn bere. During the Peninsular War, this Corps was cast into the shade by the misconduct of several of its mem- bers. Shartly afterwards, however, it was ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1834
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 430 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FRANCE

... military honours, at the Inva'lides. Damremont was considered one of the • best officers in the French army; and during the Peninsular war attracted the admiration of the Duke of Wellington for his brave and skilful defence of Burgoe. It is said that niers ...

Published: Monday 30 October 1837
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GARTHCN LODGE

... book* will ouud Kces’ Cyclopmdia, volumes ; Hume and Smollett's History England, Southey's History of the Brasils and the Peninsular War, Evans’ England and Wales, &c. Ac. and about 300 ounces of plate. Catalogues aod particulars to be bad from tbe Auctioneer ...

Published: Tuesday 07 April 1829
Newspaper: Chester Courant
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 101 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DEATH OF VETERAN SOLDIER. In onr obituary will be found recorded the death Mr. John Todd, well known this town

... Franca, November 13, 1813. Orthes-, February Toulouse, April 10, 1814. At the conclusion the Peninsular war, John Todd's regiment was sent to take part the American war 1814-13, and was present the,gallant but disastrous struggle at New Orleans. a!! these ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1847
Newspaper: Westmorland Gazette
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 743 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEW VICE-ROY FOR IRELAND

... country for a better system than any which had previously existed. What Col. Napier says of him io his History‘of the Peninsular War, namely, that he is “a man with too many weaknesses to be called great,” may be true; but, nevertheless, he possesses ...

Published: Friday 13 September 1833
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

rinIIE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. No. XX. IL for AcausT, price 2s. 6d. contains I.—lrish Church Commission, ..

... —Poetry, and the Decline of Poetical Genius: Vll.—Letters from Spai =--No. lii. An Execution. Vlll.—Curiosity. w—Napier's• PeninSular War. X.—Adventures in Sout America—No. 111. The Prize. Xl.—An Address to the P.rotestants of Englautl, on the Measure s in ...

LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET—Friday,

... years in the hist Regiment of Light Infantry, accompanied Sir David Baird’s expedition, and was in nine engagements of the Peninsular war. ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1845
Newspaper: Liverpool Mail
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 8 | Tags: none