Return of Villages in the Vicinity of the Cantonments occupied by the Fusiliers
papers, papers
Accession Number

NAM.1968-07-397-21

Description

Manuscript document laid out in tabular format, listing Portuguese villages within the cantonment of the 7th Fusilers. Undated, but signed by Lt Col Myers, who was killed in 1811 (one page). The document provides locations and details of the numbers of houses, families and the quality of accommodation for billeted troops in the area of Portugal where the 7th Fusiliers were billeted. From a collection of papers relating to Gen Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole; associated with the Peninsular War (1808-1814); associated with the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).

Campaigns

Peninsular War (1808-1814), Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)

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