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Authors: Mark Urban

Tags: #Europe, #Napoleonic Wars; 1800-1815, #Great Britain, #Military, #Other, #History

Rifles: Six Years With Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters (51 page)

Tarbes
1
,
2
,
3

and the murder in Plaisance
1

ordered to embark for England
1

sails home
1

statistics
1

embarks at Dover (25 April 1815)
1

Quatre Bras
1

Waterloo
1
,
2
,
3

campaigns come to an end
1

sent to Scotland, then Ireland
1

95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles): 2nd

Battalion
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Colborne leads
1

reorganisation of the 95th
1

at Shorncliffe camp
1
,
2

Tarbes
1
,
2

95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles): 3rd

Battalion
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

newly formed
1

training
1

at Shorncliffe camp
1
,
2

four companies join the Light Division
1

blooded at Barossa
1

Uniacke in
1

desertion
1

attack on the Mouiz fort
1

Tarbes
1
,
2
,
3

ordered to embark for America
1

end of
1

Ninon, Captain
1
,
2

Nive, Battle of (9 December, 1813)
1

Nive River
1

Nivelle, Battle of (10 November, 1813)
1
,
2

Nymph
(frigate)
1

O’Hare, Major Peter
1
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2
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3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7

background
1

joins the Rifles
1

and reorganisation of the battalion
1

embarks from Dover (May 1809)
1
,
2
,
3

promotion
1
,
2
,
3

ambition
1

surrender at Buenos Aires
1

field days at Campo Maior
1

and Guadiana fever
1

and Simmons
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

pursuit of the maid of Hythe
1

appearance
1

at Barba del Puerco
1
,
2

Combat of the Coa
1
,
2

at Arruda
1
,
2

stops a man’s gin ration
1

at Redinha
1

last battle at the head of 3rd Company
1

Fuentes d’Onoro
1
,
2

acting commander of the battalion
1

illness
1

and Almond’s fate
1

Badajoz
1

death
1
,
2

O’Hare, Marianne
1
,
2

O’Hare, Mary
1
,
2

Old Slaughter’s Coffee House, London
1

O’Reilly, Lieutenant
1

Oropesa
1
,
2

Ostend
1

Pack, General
1
,
2

Paget, General Sir Edward
1

Pakenham, Colonel Edward
1

Pakenham, Captain Hercules
1

Palencia
1

Pampluna
1
,
2

Paris
1

Patriotic Fund
1

Peninsular Army

impressed by the Light Division’s actions
1
,
2

and promotion
1

the 95th as its hardest fighting corps
1

desertion
1

Colour Sergeants
1

Petite Rhune, La
1
,
2
,
3

Phillipon, General
1

Picton, General
1
,
2
,
3
,
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,
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,
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,
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15
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16
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17

Picurina redoubt, La
1

Pinhel
1
,
2

Pitt, Corporal George
1
,
2

Plaisance
1
,
2

Plate River
1

Plunket, Sergeant Tom

rewarded for shooting a French general
1
,
2
,
3

humour
1

drunken behaviour and punishment
1
,
2

matchseller
1

Pombal
1
,
2

Portina River
1
,
2
,
3

Portsmouth
1
,
2

Portugal

brief 1808 campaign
1

95th lands in (1809)
1

Wellesley commands British forces
1

Guadiana marks the frontier
1

Wellington’s treatment of people and

property
1
,
2

French atrocities
1

Portuguese army units

1st
Cacadores
1
,
2
,
3

3rd
Cacadores
1
,
2
,
3

17th Regiment
1

Portuguese light infantry
1

Portuguese Navy
1

Powers, Major
1

Pozo Bello
1
,
2

Pratt, Lieutenant
1
,
2

Prussian army
1
,
2
,
3

Public Record Office, Kew
1

Punhete
1

Pyrenean frontier
1

Pyrenees
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

Quatre Bras

Wellington’s army
1

Underwood holds back
1
,
2

the 95th opens fire
1

injuries
1
,
2

cuirassiers
1

fate of the Black Watch (42nd)
1
,
2

Redinha, Combat of
1
,
2
,
3

Redoubt of San Francisco
1
,
2
,
3
,
4

Revenge, The
(play)
1

Reynier, General
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8

Rhine River
1

Rhune mountain
1
,
2

Rifle Brigade, The (previously 95th Rifles)
1

Rifle Corps
1
,
2

riflemen

limited role in combat
1

as an arbiter of life and death
1
,
2

training
1

quick-loading
1

as universal soldiers
1

close-range fighting
1

rifles

firing
1

shooting practice
1

Baker rifle
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6

rate of fire
1

Craufurd’s comments
1

French attitude to
1

Rivals, The
(Sheridan)
1

Roberts, Bob
1

Robinson, Private
1

Rodrigo fortress
1
,
2
,
3

Rottenburg, Colonel
1

Royal Artillery
1

Royal Horse Artillery (RHA)
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5

Royal Navy
1

Royal Surrey Militia
1
,
2
,
3

Rueda
1

Rules and Regulations (1792)
1
,
2

Russia: Napoleon marches his army into
1

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