Here a little British division not 4,000 strong overthrew double the number of Frenchmen, capturing six guns and two eagles. The subjoined list of casualties shows that others besides the regiments which are authorized to emblazon this battle honour on their colours did their duty as Englishmen on that March day. There seems no valid reason why the Norfolks, North Lancashires, South Lancashires, and the Rifle Brigade should not be permitted to assume this honour, albeit the headquarters of those regiments were not present in the engagement. CASUALTIES AT THE BATTLE OF BARROSA, MARCH 4, 1811. +---------------------------+-----------+-----------+ | |_Officers._| _Men._ | | _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+ | | K. | W. | K. | W. | +---------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ |Grenadier Gds. | 2 | 8 | 33 | 177 | |Coldstream Guards | 1 | 2 | 8 | 46 | |Scots Guards | 1 | 1 | 14 | 85 | |Royal Artillery | - | 8 | 6 | 40 | |Roy. Engineers | - | - | 1 | 2 | |28th Gloucester | - | 8 | 16 | 135 | |67th Hampshire | - | 4 | 10 | 30 | |87th R. Irish F. | 1 | 4 | 44 | 124 | |9th Norfolk (flank cos.) | - | 4 | 8 | 56 | |47th N. Lancs (flank cos.) | 1 | 1 | 20 | 49 | |82nd S. Lancs (flank cos.) | - | 2 | 8 | 89 | |95th Rifle Brig. | 1 | 3 | 14 | 48 | +---------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+ NOTE.--A battalion composed of the flank companies of the 9th (Norfolk), 28th (Gloucester), and 82nd (South Lancashire) went into action 475 bayonets; its losses were 225 non-commissioned officers and men killed and wounded. A fellow battalion of the flank companies of the 47th and three companies of the 95th (Rifle Brigade) lost 130 men out of 594. FUENTES D'ONOR, MAY 5, 1811. In March, 1811, Massena, with his army much worn with the hard winter blockade outside Torres Vedras, fell back into Spain, closely followed by Wellington. Then ensued a number of rearguard actions which are not inscribed on our colours, but which brought out, on the one hand, the capacity of Ney as a rearguard commander, and, on the other, the admirable handling of our own Light Division of immortal fame. Pressing Massena back, Wellington endeavoured to relieve the beleaguered garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo with his own army, and detached Beresford to perform the same action with regard to Badajoz, and so it came about that within a few days of each other two general actions were fought. Fuentes d'Onor is borne on the colours or appointments of the