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	Battle of Corunna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Corunna (or of La Corunna, A Coruña, La Coruña, or Elviña) was a battle of the Peninsular War which took place on January 16, 1809, between 16,000 British under Sir John Moore, and 12,000 French infantry under Marshal Soult.
		The battle for Elvina was not yet decided when Sir John Moore was struck in the chest by a cannonball and died on the field.
		The campaign and Battle of Corunna foreshadowed many of the problems to be encountered by the British army within the Peninsula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Corunna (1060 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B)
		The Battle of Algiers was a bitter conflict in Algiers from 1954 to 1962 between the Algerian nationalist population and the French colonial army and French settlers.
		The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
		The Battle of Navas de Tolosa was fought in 1212 between Yakub Almansur of the Almohades and the kings of Aragon, Castile and Navarre.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/F2.HTM (17055 words)

	Corunna : Battle of Corunna : Napoleonic Wars : Peninsular War : Moore : Soult
		Corunna : Battle of Corunna : Napoleonic Wars : Peninsular War : Moore : Soult
		More than 5000 British had died during the cruel march and while discipline had been strained to breaking point, the need to hold the French off while the troops were evacuated by ship to England brought the professionalism back.
		The battle for the village was ferocious and it took several hours for the British to drive off the attackers.
	www.napoleonguide.com /battle_corunna.htm (230 words)

	The Battle of Trenton - 1776
		Winner: The battle was a resounding physical and moral victory for Washington and his American troops.
		The effect of the battle of Trenton was out of all proportion to the numbers involved and the casualties.
		The American effort across the colonies was galvanized and the psychological dominance achieved by the British in the preceding year overturned.
	www.britishbattles.com /battle-trenton.htm (842 words)

	The Battle of Trafalgar
		The size of gun on the line of battle ships was up to 24 pounder, firing heavy iron balls or chain and link shot designed to wreck rigging.
		The prospect of a decisive battle against the French and Spanish put the British Fleet in a state of high excitement.
		Turner's magnificent representation of the Battle of Trafalgar
	www.britishbattles.com /waterloo/battle-trafalgar.htm (2674 words)

	Battle Honours
		A battle honour is an official acknowledgement rewarded to military units for their achievements in specific wars or operations of a military campaign.
		Battle honours are usually presented in the form of a name of a country, a region or a city where the regiment's distinguished act took place together with the year when it occurred.
		Although the granting of battle honours had already been in place at the time, it was not until 1784 that Infantry units were authorized to bear battle honours on their colours.
	www.army.mod.uk /infantry/regts/the_rifles/history_traditions/battle_honours/index.htm (4813 words)

	McGonagall Online: The Battle of Corunna
		Corunna had been a victory that would, in 1940, be echoed by Dunkirk: the bedraggled army had escaped destruction and survived to fight another day.
		Corunna - Short account of the battle cross-referenced with related topics.
		Battle at Corunna - A first-hand account by Sir Charles Napier of the 50th Regiment.
	www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk /poems/lpgcorunna.htm (1071 words)

	The Battle of Vimiero The Peninsular war
		Many of his battles had been won using a combination of the manoeuvrability and fire power of his guns and the speed of his columns of infantry, supported by the mass of his cavalry.
		Highlanders and Rifle Brigade at the Battle of Vimeiro
		Follow-up: After the battle Junot asked for a capitulation on the terms that he and his army be repatriated to France.
	www.britishbattles.com /peninsula/peninsula-vimiero.htm (1517 words)

	Index of People
		Battle between the H.M.S. Serapis and USS Bon Homme Richard
		Battle of Edgehill: Remarkable Cases of Suspended Animation
		Welsh tales connected with the Battle of Bosworth
	www.thebookofdays.com /indexes/wars.htm (211 words)

	G. A. Henty : With Moore At Corunna : Chapter XI. An Escape
		While the battle was at its height Terence was despatched by the brigadier to carry an order to one of the regiments that had pushed too far forward in its ardour.
		I was wounded in the battle of Corunna, and after lying insensible all that night, found, when I recovered in the morning, that the French had advanced and that I was in their rear.
		As Terence had, the evening before the battle, seen a sketch-map on which General Fane had written the names and positions of the British force and those of the French, he was able to draw one closely approximating to it.
	www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid.1/bookid.2212/sec.12 (5010 words)

	[minstrels] The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna -- Charles Wolfe
		Notes: The battle of Corunna was part of the Peninsular War January 16, 1809: Sir John Moore, given command, takes the small British army through Portugal and into Spain to support the rumoured Spanish uprising and relieve Madrid.
		At Corunna harbour, he defeats the French pursuit under Marshal Soult but is killed at the moment of victory.
		21, 1823, Queenstown, County Cork Irish poet and clergyman, whose "Burial of Sir John Moore" (1817), commemorating the commander of the British forces at the Battle of Corunna (La Coruqa, Spain) during the Peninsular War, is one of the best-known funeral elegies in English.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/115.html (1809 words)

	The Battle of La Coruna - 16th J
		Corunna is a battle honour for the regiments marked *.
		Napoleon was coming after him and it was imperative that the British army retreat with all speed to Corunna in the North West Galician corner of Spain for evacuation by the fleet.
		The army marched into the port of Corunna on the night of 11th January 1809, many of the troops in a state of exhaustion.
	www.cabarfeidh.com /corunna.htm (1845 words)

	Peninsular Campaign: Battle at Corunna January 16, 1808
		Napoleonic Wars in the Iberian Peninsula: Battle at Corunna.
		More were lost to too much drink, stragglers and exhaustion in the short distance from Lugos to Betanzos that in the entire first of the march.They could finally see the sea and arrived in Corunna on the 11th.
		The battle was termed a victory by the "loyal" press, and the evacuation a disgrace by the opposition press.
	www.georgianindex.net /peninsularWar/corunna.html (743 words)

	Peninsular Campaign: Battle at Corunna DATE 1808
		After what seemed like weeks of marching and counter-marching both Baird's and Moore's forces concentrated at Mayorga on December 20th and the following morning the first of Paget's two fine cavalry actions was fought.
		There are Spanish and British who want a battle badly enought to misinform him about both the resolve of the Spanish people, and the numbers of the French troops.
		They gained som information about the location or Soult's French forces to their north, and intend to march and meet him in battle.
	www.georgianindex.net /peninsularWar/sahagun.html (606 words)

	The Peninsular War \| The Battle of La Coruña (Corunna, Elviña, Elvina), 16th January 1809
		The outcome of the battle would depend on the fight for control of the slopes behind Elviña.
		Reynaud's Brigade from Merle's Division now joined the battle by advancing against Bentinck's left, but was itself taken in the flank by the 3/1st and 2/81st of Manningham's Brigade.
		The British withdrew from Monte Mero on the night of the battle, and completed their evacuation by sea on the 18th.
	www.peninsularwar.org /coruna.htm (905 words)

	The other armada parts 1-10
		His strike at the French fleet waiting off Corunna had been a really good idea, one that he had fully expected to succeed: His thirty-three ships of the line had outnumbered the expected French force slightly, and he considered British ships, weight for weight, the finest in the world.
		The news of Corunna rockets like a shot across the warring nations of Europe: At a stroke, Quiberon (the major naval battle of the last war) has been reversed, and British power in the Channel has been temporarily broken.
		The Battle of Streatham Hill (May 16-17) sees a hastily-raised London militia combined with the survivors of the Kent campaign of the last month, pitted against veteran French, Dutch, and Spanish troops.
	www.geocities.com /drammos/Theotherarmada1-10.html (4796 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Corunna: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A History of the Peninsular War: January to September 1809 - From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign v.
		History of the Peninsular War: 1807-1809 - From the Treaty of Fontainebleau to the Battle of Corunna v.
		A History of the Peninsular War: January-September 1809: From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign v.
	www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Corunna&tag=booksandvideo&index=books-uk&link_code=qs&page=1 (320 words)

	Cameronians
		In 1809 the Cameronians were with Sir John Moore at the battle of Corunna, a victory which crowned a masterly retreat in the depth of winter.
		The battle honor of "Mandora" gained in that campaign is borne by only one other regiment of the British Army, the 92nd (later the 2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders), although upwards of 20 infantry regiments, besides several of cavalry, took part in the action.
		In the war of 1914-1918 the regiment consisted of 27 battalions and, as its battle honors attest, added new lustre to its name on the Western Front, and in Macedonia, Gallipoli and Palestine.
	pirate.shu.edu /~therajpa/cameronians.htm (798 words)

	The Retreat to Corunna battlefield tour
		A highlight of this tour is sure to be the re-enactment of the battle of Corunna with some 500 participants expected.
		The whole of today is given over to a study of the battle of Corunna itself.
		Today we witness the grand, international re-enactment of the Battle of Corunna, 190 years on.
	www.midastours.co.uk /t033a.html (852 words)

	Flag flying days in Galicia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		September 1 - Battle of Tamaron, dethronement of the Royal House of Galicia, 1037.
		That changed after the Battle of Tamaron in 1037, when king Vermudo III of Galicia and Leon was defeated by Fernando I of Castile.
		John Moore died in the Battle of Corunna on January 16th 1809, together with other 8,000 more British soldiers, and the city was briefly occupied by the French troops.
	www.bandeiragalega.com /en/flagdays.htm (4078 words)

	English Military Victories
		Britain loses the upper hand in the opening battle for the American war of indep endence.
		In defense of the French Countries, French, British, Polish, Belgium and Dutch armies are defeated by the Axis power of Germnay and Italy.
		Britian and her allies are victorious in the D-Day beach landings against the unsuspecting Germans.
	www.militaryfactory.com /battles/english_military_victories.asp (1054 words)

	Napoleon. Shamrock Hill Books
		Blaze entered the army as a youth and served in campaigns from the Battle of Eylau, through the Napoleonic Wars, the Bourbon restoration, and the 1830 revolution.
		Volume One: 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainebleau to the Battle of Corunna by Sir Charles Oman.
		From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Sir Charles Oman.
	members.aol.com /historybks/napoleon.htm (854 words)

	26 Regiment Royal Artillery - 17 (Corunna) Battery
		of January 1809 the French brought the British to battle at Corunna and the Battery deployed.
		During the night the British withdrew from their battle positions and commenced embarkation onto the waiting fleet.
		In June 1942 the Battery, together with the remainder of 4th Field Regiment fought with distinction at the Battle of Knightsbridge Box.
	www.army.mod.uk /26regtra/17_bty.htm (1030 words)

	Napoleon Series Reviews: March of Death
		By the time the army reached Corunna, where it would be evacuated, it was only a skeleton of its former self. The French Army was pressing hard and before the British could be evacuated they had to fight a final battle.
		At Corunna, the British, like a fox at bay, turned on their tormentors and severely beat them.
		Summerville puts the reader in the midst of it all and leaves him with a sense of horror at the brutality of the retreat. Yet he also gives credit where credit is due — to those units that never lost their discipline and performed well.
	www.napoleon-series.org /reviews/military/c_corunna.html (618 words)

	Retreat from Corunna
		Sir John Moore is one of the few soldiers who have won lasting fame by the conduct of a retreat.
		Hill and valley re-echoed with the din of battle.
		Moore was in the forefront of the conflict near the village of Elvina, against which the assault was fiercest.
	www.military-art.com /var460.htm (904 words)

	Coffin line of DHB - aqw04.htm -
		The British victory at Corunna enabled Sir John Moore's army to embark and leave Spain, but Moore himself was mortally wounded.
		During the disastrous, disorderly retreat to Corunna, many horses had to be destroyed because they could not keep up with the army.
		She died aboard ship returning to England after the battle at Corunna (Jan. 1809) and was buried at sea [See 1896 letter of Samuel Coffin].
	home.att.net /~d.h.bonsall/wsb/coffin/aqwg04.htm (496 words)

	Sarasota, Florida - Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall - The Pipes, Drums and Highland Dancers of 1st Battalion Black Watch ...
		Shortly afterward, it distinguished itself at the Battle of Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.
		The red tackle or plume, which the Regiment considers a Battle Honor, was awarded in 1795.
		In the Napoleonic Wars, it comprised part of the British Army at the Battle of Corunna, Toulouse, the Peninsula Campaign and Waterloo.
	www.vanwezel.org /media/pressRelease.cfm?preID=288 (557 words)

	List of battles 1801-1900
		1812 Battle of Aslanduz[?] Oct 31 The Russians defeat the Persian army of Abbas Mirza.
		1813 Battle of Leipzig Oct. 16-19 - (Battle of the Nations) Napoleon's army is decisively defeated by the allies in Germany
		1828 Battle of Praia Bay[?] August 28 - The Miguelite fleet in Portugal is defeated by the loyalists of Queen Maria in the Azores.
	www.fastload.org /li/List_of_battles_1801-1900.html (4587 words)

	January 16th
		The battle of Corunna, January 16th, 1809, was heard of with profound feeling by the British public.
		An army had failed in its mission: deceived by the Spanish junta and British minister, it had made au advance on Madrid:, and was forced to commence a retreat in the depth of winter.
		But the commander, Sir John Moore, more than redeemed himself from any censure to which he was liable, by the skill and patience with which he conducted the troops on their withdrawal to the coast.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/jan/16.htm (1816 words)

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