The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies

Note 69 — CAMPAIGN OF SIR JOHN MOORE.

Reading edition

MEMORIALS OF SIR JOHN MOORE.

The following simple inscriptions are the only memorials which as yet have marked the field of Corunna, or the grave of the departed general:—

A la Gloria del Ex^mo S^r D. Juan Moore, Gen^l del Ex^to Ingleso, Y a la de sus valientes compatriotas, la España agradecida.

On the other side,—

Batalla de Coruña a 16 de Enero, Año 1809.

Marshal Soult also ordered the following inscription to be engraved upon a rock near the spot where Sir John Moore fell:—

Hìc cecidit Johannes Moore, Dux Exercitus, In pugnâ Januarii xvi. 1809, Contra Gallos, à Duce Dalmatiæ ductos.