Intrenchments and their batteries he quickly levelled down.
Thro’ Portugal and Spain his enemy did pursue,
With the veteran sons of Britain he march’d to Waterloo,
And there he made a noble stand upon that blood-stain’d day,
And fought the French so manfully and made them run away.
At Vittoria,—Badagoz, and Talevara too,
On the plains of Salamanca, the French he did subdue,
With the veteran sons of Britain wherever he did go,
Amidst thundering peals of cannon he conquer’d every foe.
On the plains of Waterloo where thousands they lay dead,