Note 33 — BATTLE OF CORUNNA. 16th. January, 1809.
Reading edition
The following remarkable circumstance occurred in the 2nd. Foot:—“Samuel Evans, a private in the Grenadier Company of the 2nd. Foot, was carried off amongst the wounded at Corunna. He arrived in England, and died in the military hospital at Plymouth, on the 30th. of January, 1809. On a post mortem, examination being made, it was discovered that he had been shot through the heart, and yet had survived sixteen days.”—Curiosities of War.