MEMORIALS OF SIR JOHN MOORE.
The following simple inscriptions are the only memorials which as yet have marked the field of Corunna, or the grave of the departed general:—
A la Gloria
del
Exmo Sr D. Juan Moore, Genl del Exto Ingleso,
Y a la de sus valientes compatriotas,
la
España agradecida.
On the other side,—
Batalla de Coruña a 16 de Enero,
Año 1809.
Marshal Soult also ordered the following inscription to be engraved upon a rock near the spot where Sir John Moore fell:—
Hìc cecidit Johannes Moore, Dux Exercitus,
In pugnâ Januarii xvi. 1809,
Contra Gallos, à Duce Dalmatiæ ductos.
[70] General Order, Horse-Guards, Feb. 1st, 1809.
[71] “He always rose between three and four in the morning, lighted his fire and candle by a lamp, and wrote till breakfast-hour. Afterwards, he received commanding officers, transacted business, and then rode out to view the troops or reconnoitre the country. His table was plentiful, his guests varying from fourteen to twenty. With these he talked familiarly, drank a few glasses of wine, returned to his orderly business, and was in bed by ten o’clock.”—Life of Moore.
[72] “Pray for me, that I may make right decisions, * * * I sleep little,” &c. &c. “I see my situation, and nothing can be worse.”—Campaign, &c. in Spain.