The transports not having arrived, a position was occupied in advance of _Corunna_, and some sharp skirmishing ensued, in which four companies of the SEVENTY-FIRST were warmly engaged, and lost several men in killed and wounded. Lieutenant William Lockwood was severely wounded. On this ground the battle of _Corunna_ was fought, on the 16th of January; but the SEVENTY-FIRST, being placed on the extreme left of the British line, had little to do therein. The result of the action was glorious to the British army, but was darkened by the loss of Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, who received a severe wound during the battle, and died at ten o’clock on the same night. His remains were wrapped in a military cloak, and interred in the Citadel of Corunna, over which Marshal Soult, with the true feeling of a soldier, erected a monument. Lieut.-General Sir David Baird, who succeeded to the command upon Sir John Moore being wounded, was also wounded, and the command devolved upon Lieut.-General the Honorable John Hope. At eight o’clock on the night of the 16th of January the troops quitted their position, leaving the piquets posted, and a few men to keep up the fires, and then marched into Corunna, where they embarked for England on the following day. In commemoration of this battle, and of the conduct of the battalion during the expedition, the SEVENTY-FIRST, in common with the army employed under Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, received the royal authority to bear the word “CORUNNA” on the regimental colour and appointments.[24] The thanks of both Houses of Parliament were conferred on the troops, and were communicated to Lieut.-Colonel Pack by Lieut.-General Sir David Baird in the following letter:-- “_Portsmouth, 30th January 1809._ “SIR, “I have great pleasure in transmitting to you copies of letters from the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, enclosing the Resolutions of both Houses of Parliament, dated 25th of January 1809, which contain the thanks of those Houses to the army lately engaged before Corunna. “In communicating to you, Sir, this most signal mark of the approbation of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, allow me to add my warmest congratulations upon a distinction which you, and the corps under your command on that day, had a share in obtaining for His Majesty’s service. “I have, &c. “(Signed) DAVID BAIRD, “_Lieut.-General_. “_Officer commanding First Battalion_ “SEVENTY-FIRST regiment.” After the battalion had landed at Ramsgate, it was marched to Ashford in Kent, where it continued for some time, collecting the men, who from contrary winds were driven into different ports. While at Ashford the battalion was brigaded with the Warwick militia and the ninety-first regiment, under Brigadier-General the Baron de Rottenburg. Great sickness prevailed at this station, and Surgeon James Evans and several of the soldiers died of typhus fever.