95th RIFLES - Retreat from Corunna, 1809

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95th RIFLES - Retreat from Corunna, 1809The Battle of Corunna took place on 16 January 1809, when a French corps under Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult attacked a British army under Lieutenant General Sir John Moore. The battle took place amidst the Peninsular War, which was a part of the wider Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon had defeated the Spanish armies and caused the British army to withdraw to the coast following an unsuccessful attempt by Moore to attack Soult's corps and divert the French army.

Gibraltar and Menorca during the war with revolutionary France

South Gare

The 27th Regiment served throughout the Napoleonic Wars including in Egypt where it formed part of Abercromby's force that fought at the Battle of Alexandria in March 1801

Found Object - Old wall sporting multiple layers of paint & wallpaper unashamedly displays dynamic configuration of colour

conformed to a set of regulations that were designed to ensure conformity

Sizes 8x10 and 10x12

One of a series of i-phone Hipstamatic images - Close cropped compositions of mundane items

the 3rd Battalion had lost 105 killed and 373 wounded

Vermillion wild poppies dancing in a Summer breeze by Barbara Renton Wood

It had a leather shell interior covered with bearskin with a cloth bag piped with narrow braid

during a crucial bayonet charge in which his division stopped d'Erlon's corps' attack against the allied centre left

from an original gesso

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