The Commanding Officers of regiments must likewise enforce the orders of the army regarding the constant, real inspection of the soldiers’ arms, ammunition, accoutrements, and necessaries, in order to prevent at all times the shameful waste of ammunition, and the sale of that article and of the soldiers’ necessaries. With this view both should be inspected daily.
In regard to the food of the soldier, I have frequently observed and lamented in the late campaign, the facility and celerity with which the French soldiers cooked in comparison with those of our army.
The cause of this disadvantage is the same with that of every other description, the want of attention of the officers to the orders of the army, and the conduct of their men, and the consequent want of authority over their conduct. Certain men of each company should be appointed to cut and bring in wood, others to fetch water, and others to get the meat, &c. to be cooked; and it would soon be found that if this practice was daily enforced, and a particular hour for seeing the dinners, and for the men dining, named, as it ought to be, equally as for parade, that cooking would no longer require the inconvenient length of time which it has lately been found to take, and that the soldiers would not be exposed to the privation of their food at the moment at which the army may be engaged in operations with the enemy.
You will of course give your attention to the field exercise and discipline of the troops. It is very desirable that the soldiers should not lose the habits of marching, and the division should march 10 or 12 miles twice in each week, if the weather should permit, and the roads in the neighbourhood of the cantonments of the division should be dry.
But I repeat, that the great object of the attention of the General and Field Officers must be to get the Captains and Subalterns of the regiments to understand and perform the duties required from them, as the only mode by which the discipline and efficiency of the army can be restored and maintained during the next campaign.
I have the honour to be, &c.
(Wellington)
To Officers Commanding Divisions and Brigades
Index
Abadia, Gen
Abajo
Ackett, Lt Col
Agueda
Agueda gate
Alba
Albuera
Alcantara
AldeaTejada
Almaraz
Almaraz Bridge
Alten, Gen
Andalucia
Anson, Maj Gen
Arapile hill
Arapiles
Arapiles village
Arentschildt, Col Frederick
arms
army
Army of Portugal
Asturias
Atalaya
Atkinson, C. T.
Aubert, Maj
Azan
Badajoz
Bainbrigge, Capt Phillip
Barcelona
Barnard, Col
Barrie, Brig Gen
Bathurst, Lord
Bell, Ensign George
Benavente
Bentinck, Sir William
Beresford, Marshal
Berkeley, Adm
Berlanga
Bienvenida
Bingham, Lt Col George
Blakeney, Robert
Bock, Baron
bodies
Bonnet, Gen
Brazill, Sgt
British Army:
Formations:
Heavy Brigade
Units:
I Troop
ColdstreamGds
Royal Scots
1/4th
2/4th
2/5th
Royal Fusiliers
1/7th194
Norfolks
1/9th209
1/11th
1/23rd
Inniskillings
3/27th
1/28th
2/30th
1/36th
2/38th
1/40th
Black Watch
1/43rd
Essex Regt
2/44th
1/45th
1/48th
1/52nd
2/52nd
2/53rd
1/58th
1/61st
2/83rd
ConnaughtRgrs
1/95th
2/95th
3/95th
3/103rd
Corps of Artificers
Brooke, Lt Col
Brown, William
Browne, Lt Thomas
Buchanan, Capt
Bull, Maj
Burgos
Burgoyne, Maj
Busaco
Cabrerizos
Cadiz
Caffarelli, Gen
Cameron, Col
Candler, Capt Robert
Castalliano
Castanos
Chowne, Gen
Christobal
Ciudad Rodrigo
Clausel, Marshal
Clinton, Capt Lord
Cocks, Maj Charles
Colborne, Col
Colville, Gen
Connelly, Sgt Michael
Cooke, Lt John
Cooper, John
Costello, Ned
Cother, Maj
Cotton, Lt Gen
Craufurd, Gen
Currie, Capt James
Curto
Dalbiac, Col
De Grasse, Capt
Delancey, Col
Dickson, Capt
Dobbs, Capt John
Donaldson, Sgt Joe
Douglas, John
Duffy, Capt John
Elley, Col
Ellicombe, Capt
Elliot, Lt Theodore
Erskine, Sir William
Ewart, Capt John
Fearon, Maj Peter
Fenton, Capt Thomas
Ferdinand II
Ferey, Gen
Fergusson, Capt James
Fletcher, Col
Fort Cayetano
Fort Christobal
Fort Napoleon
Fort Pardaleras
Fort Pardeleras
Fort Picurina
Fort Ragusa
Fort San Cristobal
Fortescue, Sir John
Foy, Gen
French Army:
Grande Armée
Units:
3/9th Léger
3/28th Léger
17th Léger
25th Léger
31st Léger
1st Ligne
15th Ligne
22nd Ligne
27th Ligne
39th Ligne
58th Ligne
64th Ligne
65th Ligne
69th Ligne
70th Ligne
76th Ligne
82nd Ligne
86th Ligne
3/88th Ligne
113th Ligne
118th Ligne
120th Ligne
122nd Ligne
Hesse-Darmstadt Regt
Galicia
Gawler, Ensign George
Germans
Graham, Gen
Grattan, Ensign William
Gray, Capt
Green, Bglr William
Greville, Col
Guingret, Capt
Gurwood, Lt John
Harrison, Maj
Henry II
Hessians
Hill, Gen
Hope, Gen
Hopkins, Capt Edward
Horse Guards
Italian guard
Italians
Jenkinson, Capt
Johnston, Lt William
Jones, John
Jourdan, Marshal
Kempt, Gen
Kincaid, Johnny
Kingsmill, Lt
Knoller, Col
Knowles, Lt Robert
La Cueva
La Pinilla
Laing, Capt
Lamare, Col
Landsheit, Sgt
Laurie, Maj
Lavigne, Lt
Le Marchant, Maj Gen
&
nbsp; Leith, Gen
Leith-Hay, Capt
Lisbon
London
Long, Maj Gen
MacCarthy, Capt James
Mackie, Lt
MacKinnon, Gen
MacLeod, Col
Macpherson, Lt James
Madrid
Maguilla
Maillet, Lt
Maistre, Col
Mandizabal
Manners, Maj
March, Lord
Mareillac, Capt
Marmont, Marshal
Massena
Maucune, Gen
McKinnon, Maj Gen
McLeod, Lt Col
Mein, Capt
Mendizabal, Gen
Mills, John
Miravete Castle
Mitchell, Capt
Molard, Col
Moscow
Mulcaster, Capt
Murray, Sir George
Napier, Maj
Napoleon
Newman, Maj
Nicholas, Capt William
Oates, Capt
O’Hare, Maj
Oman, Sir Charles
Oporto
O’Shea, Col
O’Toole, Col
Pack, Brig Gen
Paget, Sir Edward
Pakenham, Gen
Patterson, John
Pearce, Lt
Penaranda
Percival, Capt William
Peyremmont, Gen
Philippon, Gen
Picoteu, Col
Picton, Gen
Piper, Col
Ponsonby, Col
Portugal
Portuguese Army:
Independent Portuguese Brigade
Cacadores
Cavalry
Dragoon regiments
Militia regiments
Powis, Capt
Ridge, Maj
Rodrigo
Roliça
Ross, Maj
Ross-Lewin, Lt Harry
Rudd, Maj
Russell, Sir John
Russia
Sahagun
San Antonio
San Cristoval
San Domingo
San José
San Miguel
San Vincent
Sebastiani’s regiments
Shropshires
Silveira, Gen
Simmons, George
Slade, Gen
Soult, Marshal
SpanishArmy
Stanhope, Capt James
Stokes, Lt James
Sturgeon, Maj
Suchet, Marshal
Surtees, William
Taggard, Lt
Talavera
Taragona
Thiebault, Gen
Thierry, Col Gaspard
Thomières, Gen
Toledo
Tomkinson, Capt William
Tormes
Trinidad
Truxillo
Valencia
Valladolid
Vandeleur, Maj Gen
Veiland, Gen
Villafranca
Villagarcia
von der Decken, CaptGustavus
vonHodenberg, Lt
Walker, Gen
Warre, William
Wellesley, Arthur
Wellington, Lord
army
orders
plan
Wilson, Maj James
Woodberry, Lt George
Wright RE, Lt
Zamora
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