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‘Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,As his corse to the rampart we hurried.'—from ‘The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna'by Charles WolfeOne of the best remembered poems in the English language has served to keep alive the memory of Sir John Moore and of his burial at Corunna on 17 January, 1809. The story of the battle which he fought on the previous day and of the short campaign and horrifying retreat which preceded it is, however, not so well known.The Battle of Corunna saved a British army from annihilation and resulted in the tragic death of one of England's finest generals. Setting out from Lisbon in the autumn of 1808, Sir John Moore had marched his army into Spain against Napoleon and by a daring manoeuvre had thrown it across the line of French communications. But, having thus drawn off Napoleon's army from Madrid, Moore found himself so outnumbered and with no hope of assistance from the ineffectual Spanish armies, that he decided to withdraw to the coast. After a 250-mile retreat across the mountains of Galicia under appalling weather conditions, with inadequate food supplies and the French hard on his heels, he eventually reached the port of Corunna. Here he tur

Who reads Corunna?

Author

Christopher Hibbert

Publisher

Pickle Partners Publishing

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787206687

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities