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Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore KB (13 November 1761 – 16 January 1809), also known as Moore of Corunna, was a senior British Army officer. He is best known for his military training reforms and for his death at the Battle of Corunna, in which he repulsed [1] a French army under Marshal Soult during the Peninsular War.
Portrait of Sir John Moore by Thomas Lawrence.Moore commanded the British forces at Corunna. In early October 1808, following the scandal in Britain over the Convention of Sintra and the recall of the generals Dalrymple, Burrard and Wellesley, Sir John Moore took command of the 30,000-man British force in Portugal. [14]
Commander-in-Chief: Lt Gen Sir John Moore. After Moore was mortally wounded Lt General Sir David Baird took command until he was wounded at which point Lt Gen the Hon John Hope took command Total: approx. 15,000 [b]
He commanded a division during the advance into Spain and commanded the British left at the Battle of Corunna in 1809, succeeding to overall command when Sir John Moore was killed. [1] Later that year he commanded the reserve army during the Walcheren Campaign. [1]
The regiment landed in Portugal in June 1808, and under General Sir Arthur Wellesley, fought in the Battle of Roliça [18] and the Battle of Vimeiro in August 1808. [19] The regiment fought under General Sir John Moore in the retreat to Corunna , [ 20 ] and on returning to England they were part of the Walcheren Campaign in the Netherlands ...
It served under Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore at the Battle of Corunna in January 1809 and subsequent evacuation. [20] The regiment was renamed as the 92nd Regiment of Foot in 1809. [2] It then took part in the disastrous Walcheren Campaign in autumn 1809. [21]
The Battle of Corunna, (16 January 1809), was an attack by 16,000 French under Marshal Soult during the amphibious evacuation of 16,000 British under General Sir John Moore. Moore had hoped to draw the French Army away from Portugal, to allow the small British force in that country to be reinforced, and to allow the Spanish armies to reform ...
Charles Wolfe is best remembered for his poem, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna", written in 1816 and much collected in 19th and 20th century anthologies. [1] The poem first appeared anonymously in the Newry Telegraph of 19 April 1817, and was re-printed in many other periodicals.