"Picton at Waterloo" Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Nov 2019 10:24 p.m. PST |
"When, after the victory at Toulouse and the abdication of Napoleon, Sir Thomas Picton came home from south-western France, he decided to give up active service. For several years his health had been poor and he had been telling friends that he was getting too old for a vagrant, campaigning life; already in the previous year he had been obliged to leave the Peninsula to recuperate at Cheltenham. Now, in the summer of 1814, he went there again, and then made his home at Ischoed in Carmarthenshire. Resolved to spend as much time as possible in his native Wales, he bought two adjacent farms and began to look around for an experienced bailiff to manage them…"
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| 42flanker | 02 Nov 2019 1:20 a.m. PST |
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| 42flanker | 02 Nov 2019 1:30 a.m. PST |
For those whose appetite has been whetted, an earlier profile of Sir Thomas Picton. 'Memoirs of British generals distinguished during the Peninsular War' Vol II
John William Cole [late 21st Fusiliers] (1856) link |
| Tango01 | 02 Nov 2019 11:47 a.m. PST |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
