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Updated: June 28, 2025
Among them were many old Peninsular men, whose experience now rendered them authorities among the younger soldiers, who listened eagerly to the details of the desperate struggle at Albuera, the terrible storming of the fortresses, and lighter tales of life and adventure in Spain.
Commencement of the siege of Badajoz Sortie by the garrison repulsed Lawrence takes a prisoner, who proves difficult of persuasion Lawrence poses as champion of the regimental grog, and is indulged in return with an uncomfortable spell of sentry He eventually triumphs Move to, and capture of Olivencia Separates from a faithful friend Return towards Badajoz Battle of Albuera.
Here they play at it; and an army's shipped to land without commissariat, ambulances, medical stores, and march against the odds, as usual if it can march! "Albuera, my lord?" "Our men can spurt, for a flick o' the whip. They're expected to be constantly ready for doing prodigies to repair the country's omissions. All the country cares for is to hope Dick Turpin may get to York.
But Tortosa, Tarragona, Saguntum, and Valentia, after making most desperate resistance, fell. But Wellington gained, on the other hand, the great battle of Albuera, one of the bloodiest ever fought, and which had a great effect in raising the spirits of his army and of the Spaniards.
We have had some tough work at Fuentes d'Onoro, although nothing to what yours must have been at Albuera, still it was hot enough in all conscience, and we had over a hundred casualties in the regiment. Carruthers and Manley were both slightly wounded. Jones, Anstruther, Palmer, and Chambers were killed, and several of the others hit more or less hard.
Thus there were, on both sides, movements of advance and retirement. During the time that had elapsed since the battles of Fuentes d'Onoro and Albuera, Badajos had been again besieged by the British, but ineffectually; and in August Wellington, taking advantage of Marmont's absence in the south, advanced and established a blockade of Ciudad Rodrigo. This had led to some fighting.
The British officers present were all of opinion that their chances of success, under the circumstances, were slight indeed. The battle commenced at nine in the morning by an attack by the French general Godinot upon the bridge of Albuera.
The French were in no position to renew the attack, the allies quite incapable of pursuit, and when night fell the two armies were in the same position they had occupied twenty-four hours before. Never was British valor more conspicuously displayed than at the battle of Albuera.
On the 15th of May he took up his position on rising ground looking down on Albuera, having the river in his front. Acting with him, and nominally under his orders, was a Spanish force under Blake.
"The glories of Albuera and Waterloo, of Inkermann and Balaklava, have over and over again been eclipsed by the whole-souled devotion of the British soldiery, fighting, as no doubt every man of them believes, with their backs to the wall, not for ultimate victory perhaps but for the preservation of those splendid traditions which have been maintained untarnished for over a thousand years.
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