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1 Intelligence Officer in the Peninsular, Letter & Diaries ofMajor The Hon Edward Charles Cocks 1786-1812 by Julia Page, 1986, page 104;cited in Albuera, Wellington’s Fourth Peninsular Campaign, 1811, by PeterEdwards, 2008, page 112. Later, the Siege of Burgos in 1812 became acknowledgedas Wellington’s ‘worst scrape’. It would be here, on 8th October 1812, whereCocks was to fall, a loss which was to effect Wellington deeply. 2 Fuentes de Onoro, by Rene Chartrand, 2002 3 Fortescue Vol VIII, pages 156/157 4 Oman Vol IV, pages 309/310. 5 Wyld’s Memoir, Movement Orders, page 66 6 The Memoir annexed to James Wyld’s Atlas, published in 1840, page63 7 Wellington’s Despatches, John Murray 1938, Vol IV 8 Garwood FS, ‘The Royal Staff Corps 1800-1837’ Royal EngineerJournal, vol 57, 1943 pages 88-89 9 Letters from the Peninsula 1808-1812 by Lieutenant General SirWilliam Warre, letter July 9, 1810 starts page 139. 10 Garwood FS, pages 87-88 and Burnham, Robert Inside Wellington’sPeninsular Army, page 234 11 Recent research has established that the original, damaged,bridge was demolished after 1826/27 and the present structure built some 60metres downstream from the original bridge 12 Oman makes reference to such a ford during the Action on the Coathe previous year on page 264 of Vol III – “Ney bade a mounted officer soundfor a ford at a spot above the bridge, where the river spreads out into a broadreach. But the horse and the man were killed by a volley from the British sideand floated down the swollen stream.” From George Napier’s autobiography, page131 13 Fortescue Vol VIII Maps, no. 3 14 Wyld’s Memoir, Movement Orders dated 3 May 1810, page 66 15 This original map is from the Portuguese Archives; however thecolours used to identify certain units was not correct and have here beencorrected. The Napier’s map is from Vol 2, Plate 12, facing page 405 16 Napier, Vol II, page 414 17 Refer to Fortescue Vol VIII Maps, no. 3 18 Jeffreys 1790, Lopez 1808, Faden 1809, Stockdale 1811, Eliot’sDefence of Portugal 1811 19 Napier, Vol III, plate 5, page 147 20 Wyld’s Atlas, map VI 21 Fortescue Vol VIII, pages 156/157 22 Fortescue Vol VIII Maps, no. 3 23 Fortescue Vol VIII Maps, no. 7 24 Carta Militar, number 194, published1999, courtesy Instituto Geografico do Exercito, Portugal 25 Refer to Fortescue Vol VIII Maps, no. 7 26 Fortescue Vol VIII, page 98/99 andMaps, no 20 27 Charles Cocks, page 103 28 ibid, page 104 29 Napier, Vol III, page 154 |