Orme, Edward:: Marshal Beresford engaged with the Polish Lancers at the Battle of Albuera, 1811

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Orme, Edward: : Marshal Beresford engaged with the Polish Lancers at the Battle of Albuera, 1811

Aquatint with original colour, 26 x 33 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.

Sir William Beresford (holding the rank of Lieutenant General in the British Army and Marshall in the Portugese - hence the caption) commanded allied forces at Albuera in May 1811, an especially bloody but relatively indecisive engagement, although Soult was unable to relieve Badajoz. At one point in the battle, in the reduced visibility caused by a rain storm, Polish Lancers outflanked the British infantry and all but annihilated three battalions. Beresford and his staff were scattered and in the melee he parried a lance thrust and by sheer bodily strength hurled the lancer to the ground., Abbey: Life, 376.

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