Note 30 — HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE SECOND,
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At the battle of Corunna, Samuel Evans, a private in the Grenadier company of the Queen's Royal, was carried off among the wounded. He was landed in England, and died in the Military Hospital at Plymouth, on the 30th of January. A post mortem examination showed that he had been shot through the heart, yet had survived sixteen days. His heart is preserved in the museum of the above Hospital.