A very clear map of the Peninsula, published in 1810 in London (which no doubt was largely used during the subsequent campaigns), is so utterly at variance with this Spanish map, not only in the spelling of names, but also in the position of towns and the course of rivers, that it is practically useless.
A word of explanation as to the title. When the Corps was first raised, Riflemen—being at the time a novelty—were styled Rifle Men. In one of the earliest "Clothing Warrants" of the regiment they are described as "the Regiment of Rifle Men."
George Simmons in his journals and letters adopted this form of spelling, and hence it has been retained as characteristic of the fashion of that period.
Willoughby Verner,
Lieut.-Colonel.
Royal Military College,
Sandhurst, March 1899.
A British Rifle Man