Rifles: Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters (51 page)

Tarbes
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and the murder in Plaisance
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ordered to embark for England
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sails home
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statistics
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embarks at Dover (25 April 1815)
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Quatre Bras
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Waterloo
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campaigns come to an end
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sent to Scotland, then Ireland
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95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles): 2nd

Battalion
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Colborne leads
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reorganisation of the 95th
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at Shorncliffe camp
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Tarbes
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95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles): 3rd

Battalion
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newly formed
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training
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at Shorncliffe camp
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four companies join the Light Division
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blooded at Barossa
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Uniacke in
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desertion
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attack on the Mouiz fort
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Tarbes
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ordered to embark for America
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end of
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Ninon, Captain
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2

Nive, Battle of (9 December, 1813)
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Nive River
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Nivelle, Battle of (10 November, 1813)
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Nymph
(frigate)
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O’Hare, Major Peter
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background
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joins the Rifles
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and reorganisation of the battalion
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embarks from Dover (May 1809)
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promotion
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ambition
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surrender at Buenos Aires
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field days at Campo Maior
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and Guadiana fever
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and Simmons
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pursuit of the maid of Hythe
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appearance
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at Barba del Puerco
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2

Combat of the Coa
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2

at Arruda
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,
2

stops a man’s gin ration
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at Redinha
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last battle at the head of 3rd Company
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Fuentes d’Onoro
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,
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acting commander of the battalion
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illness
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and Almond’s fate
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Badajoz
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death
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2

O’Hare, Marianne
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2

O’Hare, Mary
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2

Old Slaughter’s Coffee House, London
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O’Reilly, Lieutenant
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Oropesa
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,
2

Ostend
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Pack, General
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2

Paget, General Sir Edward
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Pakenham, Colonel Edward
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Pakenham, Captain Hercules
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Palencia
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Pampluna
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,
2

Paris
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Patriotic Fund
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Peninsular Army

impressed by the Light Division’s actions
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,
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and promotion
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the 95th as its hardest fighting corps
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desertion
1

Colour Sergeants
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Petite Rhune, La
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Phillipon, General
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Picton, General
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Picurina redoubt, La
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Pinhel
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Pitt, Corporal George
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2

Plaisance
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,
2

Plate River
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Plunket, Sergeant Tom

rewarded for shooting a French general
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humour
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drunken behaviour and punishment
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,
2

matchseller
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Pombal
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Portina River
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Portsmouth
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Portugal

brief 1808 campaign
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95th lands in (1809)
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Wellesley commands British forces
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Guadiana marks the frontier
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Wellington’s treatment of people and

property
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,
2

French atrocities
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Portuguese army units

1st
Cacadores
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2
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3

3rd
Cacadores
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2
,
3

17th Regiment
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Portuguese light infantry
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Portuguese Navy
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Powers, Major
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Pozo Bello
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2

Pratt, Lieutenant
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2

Prussian army
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Public Record Office, Kew
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Punhete
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Pyrenean frontier
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Pyrenees
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Quatre Bras

Wellington’s army
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Underwood holds back
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2

the 95th opens fire
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injuries
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2

cuirassiers
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fate of the Black Watch (42nd)
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2

Redinha, Combat of
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3

Redoubt of San Francisco
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2
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Revenge, The
(play)
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Reynier, General
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Rhine River
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Rhune mountain
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Rifle Brigade, The (previously 95th Rifles)
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Rifle Corps
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riflemen

limited role in combat
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as an arbiter of life and death
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,
2

training
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quick-loading
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as universal soldiers
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close-range fighting
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rifles

firing
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shooting practice
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Baker rifle
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rate of fire
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Craufurd’s comments
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French attitude to
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Rivals, The
(Sheridan)
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Roberts, Bob
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Robinson, Private
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Rodrigo fortress
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Rottenburg, Colonel
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Royal Artillery
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Royal Horse Artillery (RHA)
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Royal Navy
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Royal Surrey Militia
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Rueda
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Rules and Regulations (1792)
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Russia: Napoleon marches his army into
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