A narrative of the campaign of the British army in Spain, commanded by His Excellency Sir John Moore ... Authenticated by official papers and original letters / By James Moore.
- James Moore
- Date:
- 1809
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A narrative of the campaign of the British army in Spain, commanded by His Excellency Sir John Moore ... Authenticated by official papers and original letters / By James Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“your two letters of the 8th, and-that of the ‘¢. 9th with the enclosures, some of which ie * be returned to you by the next courier. “Tam sorry to say, from Sir Davide] Baird _“T-hear nothing but complaints. of the Junta - < of Corunna, who afford him: no: assistance, « They promise every thing, but give nothing ; “ and ‘after’ waiting day after-day for carts, <¢ which they had promised to: procure for the “carriage of stores, his Commissary was at last “6 obliged to contract for them at an éxorbitant << price, and then got them. This is really a sort of conduct quite intolerable to troops'that “‘ the Spanish Government have asked fer; and ‘* for whose advance they are daily pressing. “On my arrival here, and telling Colonel ‘<< O«Lowler that I wished to have supplies i im- ‘< mediately provided on the road from: Astorga, © to this place, for the march of the troops from, “Corunna, he began by telling me® that’ a © power which he should have got, and which ‘it was promised should be sent after himefrom ‘© Madrid; had’ not beén sent; that hevhad &« thts ‘no authority, and -had: hitherto ‘been, “¢ acting upon his own credit. | Part of this was a trick—_pour sé faire valoir ; ‘it tended only, ‘however, to show me, that he was not the , > |](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33486992_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
