95th RIFLES - Retreat from Corunna, 1809 Size:A3 Timeless illustration by David Higham

Timeless illustration by David Higham

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According to the historian Alessandro Barbero

despite being attacked on three sides at once

the battalion withstood repeated waves of horsemen

95th RIFLES - Retreat from Corunna, 1809 Size:A3 Timeless illustration by David HighamThe Battle of Corunna took place on 16 January 1809, when a French corps under Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult attacked a British army under Lieutenant General Sir John Moore. The battle took place amidst the Peninsular War, which was a part of the wider Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon had defeated the Spanish armies and caused the British army to withdraw to the coast following an unsuccessful attempt by Moore to attack Soult's corps and divert the French army.