Journal of an Officer in the Commissariat Department of the Army; Comprising a Narrative of the Campaigns Under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, in ... 1812, 1813, 1814, & 1815. Comprising a Na - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820. Excerpt: ... Return of the Killed, Wounded and Missing, in the Battle of Orthez. Killed. Wonnded. Misiing. British---. 907---1387... 38 Portuguese---66---503... 38 28th. As the troops were getting under arms this morning, Lord Wellington rode by the camp: he had been slightly wounded in the action by a musket ball, but did not quit the field. I had to go back to the field of battle, but I joined the division in the evening in the camp of St. Severs; it was a very wet and dreary night and there was no shelter saving what a tree here and there afforded, the 4th division having got the wood and the baggage having been unable to pass the waters, which in some places had so inundated the road that it was impossible to pass them in the night. March 1st. The troops falling under arms as usual, this morning marched through St. Severs, and passed the river Adour, which is here very deep, and several women and. children with the baggage were drowned. This was a very wet and cold night; we encamped in a field near the village of Grenade, and were very miserable. 2nd The division marching through Grenade and Cazeres encamped near Ayr. We got into a poor dirty little cottage in a lane near the camp ground, where the people were as uncivil and uncouth as possible: the only answer we could obtain to any question was, " n 'y pas" or " nai n 'y pas," by which they meant to say, " there is nothing for ye." 3d. During the night some snow had fallen, and this morning it blew very hard with rain and sleet, so that it became necessary to allow the troops to go into quarters, and they were put up in the huts and cottages about the country, the division headquarters and the Portuguese brigade occupying Cazeres. 12th. When we passed the Adour at St. Severs last week, Marshal Beresford with th...