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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539641" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Battle of Corunna</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas in the year of 1808, and in the autumn of the year,<br>Napoleon resolved to crush Spain and Portugal without fear;<br>So with a mighty army three hundred thousand strong<br>Through the passes of the Pyrenees into spain he passed along. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Sir John Moore concentrated his troops in the north,<br>And into the west corner of Spain he boldly marched forth;<br>To cut off Napoleon's communications with France<br>He considered it to be advisable and his only chance. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when Napoleon heard of Moore's coming, his march he did begin,<br>Declaring that he was the only General that could oppose him;<br>And in the month of December, when the hills were clad with snow,<br>Napoleon's army marched over the Guadiana Hills with their hearts full of woe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And with fifty thousand cavalry, infantry, and artillery,<br>Napoleon marched on, facing obstacles most dismal to see;<br>And performed one of the most rapid marches recorded in history,<br>Leaving the command of his army to Generals Soult and Ney. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And on the 5th of January Soult made his attack,<br>But in a very short time the French were driven back;<br>With the Guards and the 50th Regiment and the 42d conjoint,<br>They were driven from the village of Elnina at the bayonet's point. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! It was a most gorgeous and inspiring sight<br>To see Sir John Moore in the thickest of the fight,<br>And crying aloud to the 42d with all his might,<br>&quot;Forward, my lads, and charge them with your bayonets left and right.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the 42d charged them with might and main,<br>And the French were repulsed again and again;<br>And although they poured into the British ranks a withering fire,<br>The British at the charge of the bayonet soon made them retire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! That battlefield was a fearful sight to behold,<br>'Twas enough to make one's blood run cold<br>To hear the crack, crack of the musketry and the cannon's roar,<br>Whilst the dead and the dying lay weltering in their gore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But O Heaven! It was a heartrending sight,<br>When Sir John Moore was shot dead in the thickest of the fight;<br>And as the soldiers bore him from the field they looked woebegone,<br>And the hero's last words were &quot;Let me see how the battle goes on.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he breathed his last with a gurgling sound,<br>And for the loss of the great hero the soldier's sorrow was profound,<br>Because he was always kind and served them well,<br>And as they thought of him tears down their cheeks trickling fell. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! it was a weird and pathetic sight<br>As they buried him in the Citadel of Corunna at the dead of night,<br>While his staff and the men shed many tears<br>For the noble hero who had commanded them for many years. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Success to the British Army wherever they go,<br>For seldom they have failed to conquer the foe;<br>Long may the highlanders be able to make the foe reel,<br>By giving them an inch or two of cold steel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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