Orme, Edward:: The Buffs at the Battle of Albuera

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Orme, Edward: : The Buffs at the Battle of Albuera

Aquatint with original colour, 25.5 x 35 cms, engraved by Dubourg after Manskirch, marginal soiling not affecting image, from “Historic military and naval anecdotes of ... the last long-contested war”. The plates were issued 1815-1818, and published for the first time in book form in the following year. A second edition was published in the 1830s.

Outflanked by French and Polish cavalry, the Buffs were all but wiped out at Albuera in May 1811 (643 of 755 men killed). Lieutenant Matthew Latham saved the colours, though badly wounded, by falling upon them under the hooves of the enemy. Only the staff was taken, although five other regimental colours were captured., Abbey: Life, 376.

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