Note 19 — Chapter XXII
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What he saw erected was a wooden model of what was afterwards to be executed in marble, with this inscription:
A la Gloria DEL Ex^{mo}. S^{r}. D. Juan Moore, Gen^{l}. del Ex^{to}. Ingles, Y a la de sus valientes compatriotas LA Espana agradecida.
On the other side:
Batalla de Coruña a 18 de Enero, Ano 1809.
Marshal Soult also ordered the following inscription to be engraved upon a rock near the spot where Sir John Moore fell:
Hic cecidit Johannes Moore, Dux Exercitus, In pugna Januarii xvi. 1809, Contra Gallos a Duce Dalmatiæ ductos.