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Identifier: historyofpenins05oman (find matches)
Title: A history of the Peninsular War
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Oman, Charles William Chadwick, Sir, 1860-1946
Subjects: Peninsular War, 1807-1814
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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at once proceeded to turn six companies ofthe existing corps of Royal Military Artificers into sappers.On April 23, less than three weeks after Badajoz fell, a warrantwas issued for instructing the whole corps in military field-works. On August 4 their name was changed from c RoyalMilitary Artificers to Royal Sappers and Miners. Thetransformation was much too late for the siege of Burgos, butby 1813 the companies were beginning to join the PeninsularArmy, and at San Sebastian they were well to the front. Anend was at last made to the system hitherto prevailing, by whichthe troops which should have formed the rank and file of theRoyal Engineers were treated as skilled mechanics, mainlyvaluable for building and carpentering work at home stations. One more section, a most shameful one, must be added tothe narrative of the fall of Badajoz. We have already had to teljof the grave disorders which two months before had followedthe storm of Ciudad Rodrigo. These were but trifling and BADAJOZ
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