|71st Highld. L.I. | - | - | - | - | |76th West Riding Regiment | - | - | 1 | 6 | |79th Cameronian Highdrs. | - | - | - | - | |81st L. North Lancashire | 3 | 11 | 27 | 113 | |82nd S. Lancs | - | - | - | - | |91st Argyll Highlanders | - | - | - | - | |92nd Gordon Highlanders | 1 | 1 | 3 | 15 | |Rifle Brigade (1st and 2nd Batts.) | - | - | 12 | 33 | +------------------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ It is useless disguising the fact that the French claim Corunna as a victory. Moore, who fell during the action, and who, with General Anstruther, was buried within the precincts of the work, had been compelled to destroy the greater number of his horses and to bury some of his guns prior to giving the order for embarkation, and a large number of his sick were left behind. Nothing, however, can detract from the magnificent manner in which he conducted the retirement in the face of enormous odds, nor from the gallant way in which his men pulled themselves together after the hardships endured during the retreat, and stood at bay outside Corunna. It was not a victory in the fullest sense of the word, but Corunna was a grand military achievement. THE PENINSULAR WAR (SECOND PHASE), 1809-1814. To give even a summary of the campaign would be beyond the limits of this work. It is the campaign which more than any other has formed the theme for countless books, and is more or less known to every schoolboy. My scheme is merely to bring before the regimental officer and those interested in the "price of blood" the losses sustained by each corps in each action, and so to bring home to the army the anomalies that exist in the system under which battle honours have been awarded. We have seen that the Convention of Cintra, which was the closing act of the successful campaign of Vimiera, had been received with a storm of indignation in England. When it became known that Sir Arthur Wellesley, one of the Signatories of that Convention, had been appointed to succeed the late Sir John Moore in command of the troops in Portugal, the attacks broke out afresh. The result, however, gave the lie to the arm-chair critics, for the "Sepoy General" proved a consummate master of the art of war. Landing at Lisbon on April 22, Sir Arthur struck at once. There was one French army still in Portugal, at Oporto, where Soult lay with a considerable force. Leaving a portion of his army under Beresford to watch the French main army, who were near Talavera, Wellesley moved swiftly to the north. By a masterly stroke, he threw one brigade across the Douro, and, with the loss of but 190 killed and wounded, drove Soult out of Oporto. DOURO. is inscribed on the colours and appointments of the 14th Hussars. Buffs. Northamptons. Royal Berkshires.