Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VIINorman, Charles Boswell
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Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII
Norman, Charles Boswell
Great Britain -- History, Military; Great Britain. Army -- History
NOTE.--The riflemen of the 60th and 95th (Rifle Brigade) had been
engaged on August 15, when the latter regiment lost one officer
killed and another wounded.
VIMIERA, AUGUST 21, 1808.
Four days after Roleia, Sir Arthur Wellesley, at the head of the
following regiments, inflicted a second defeat on the French army
under Junot, capturing three guns and many prisoners. The following
regiments bear the honour:
20th Hussars.
Queen's.
Northumberland Fusiliers.
Royal Warwicks.
Norfolk.
Lancashire Fusiliers.
Worcesters.
Cornwall Light Infantry.
South Stafford.
South Lancashire.
Oxford Light Infantry.
Sherwood Foresters.
West Kent.
King's Royal Rifles.
Highland Light Infantry.
Argyll Highlanders.
Rifle Brigade.
The casualties incurred were as follows:
CASUALTIES AT VIMIERA.
+------------------------+-----------+-----------+
| |_Officers._| _Men._ |
| _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+
| | K. | W. | K. | W. |
+------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|20th Hussars | 1 | - | 19 | 24 |
|Royal Artillery | - | 2 | - | 2 |
|2nd Queen's | - | - | - | 7 |
|5th Northumberland Fus. | - | - | - | - |
|6th Royal Warwicks | - | - | - | - |
|9th Norfolk (2nd Batt.) | - | - | - | - |
|20th Lancs Fus. | 1 | 1 | - | 5 |
|29th Worcester | - | 1 | 2 | 11 |
|32nd Cornwall L.I. | - | - | - | - |
|36th Worcester | - | 5 | 7 | 36 |
|38th S. Staffs | - | - | - | - |
|40th S. Lancs | - | 2 | 6 | 30 |
|43rd Oxford L.I. | - | 3 | 27 | 51 |
|45th Sherwood Foresters | - | - | - | - |
|50th West Kent | 1 | 4 | 19 | 63 |
|52nd Oxford L.I. | - | 2 | 5 | 33 |
|50th K.R.R. | - | 2 | 14 | 22 |
|71st Highland L.I. | - | 7 | 12 | 92 |
|82nd S. Lancs | 1 | - | 7 | 53 |
|91st Argyll Highlanders | - | - | - | - |
|95th Rifle Brig. | - | 4 | 37 | 43 |
+------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
Immediately after the action negotiations were entered into with
the French to secure their evacuation of Portugal. The Convention
of Cintra, the result of these negotiations, raised a storm of
indignation in England. The three Generals--Harry Burrard, Sir
Howard Dalrymple, and Sir Arthur Wellesley--were recalled, and
their conduct submitted to a Court of Inquiry held at the Royal
Hospital, Chelsea, under the presidency of Sir Henry Dundas.
The _Times_ took a strong line against Wellesley, but the Court
of Inquiry to a great extent exonerated him. Subsequently he
returned to Portugal, as we know, to carry the war to a successful
conclusion, thus belying his detractors.
The troops engaged at Vimiera were brigaded as under:
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