STORMING THROUGH THE PENINSULA

Paddy Griffith's Storming through the Peninsula was another fine piece of work - but I wonder how he happened to omit Wellington's biggest failure, the failure to take the isolated and weak French fortress at Burgos (1812). Oman gives Wellington's side of that story in Wellington's Army, but you can find a far better account in Life and Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, Bart by Wrottesley, 2 volumes, London: Richard Bently and Son 1873. See Vol. 1, pages 213240, especially 230-239 which are worth printing in a "Letter to the Editor" fashion. Note that Burgoyne says that this failure moved Wellington to go back to using heavy columns in his assaults.

--Col. John R. Elting (USA Ret.)

Addenda and Errata
JUGOSLAVIA: A NAPOLEONIC FOOTNOTE

There was an unfortunate cock-up with the main pictures in Part 2 (on pages 6 and 8-ED) being captioned the wrong way round, (although I think it was obvious from the text).

Regarding Karageorges, leader of the Serb rebellion, add to the first paragraph in column 2 on page 5 of AoN 13:". . . imprisoned by the authorities. (Prior to becoming a pig farmer and rebel leader, he had been a Sergeant in the Austrian army.)

At the start of the Uniforms and Equipment section on page 6 of issue 13, the first paragraph should refer back to the illustration on page 8 of issue 12.

At the bottom of column 2 on page 6 of issue 13, the text should continue: ". . . the distinctive red or red/white chequerboard cloaks, (47). Those regiments which changed facing colour did so as the new standard brown jackets were introduced from 1810 onwards, as the old colours; would not have shown up clearly, (48)

Regimental Distinctions

Regimental No.
Facings (Date of Brown Jacket)
Buttons

1. Liccaner
Violet/Emperor Yellow (1814)
Yellow

2. Ottocaner
Violet/ Emperor Yellow (1814)
White

3. Oguliner
Orange (1814)
Yellow

4. Szluiner
Orange (1814)
White

5. Warasdin-Kreuzer
Crab Red (1813)
Yellow

6. Warasdin-St Georger
Crab Red (1811)
White

7. Broder
Pale Red (1813)
Yellow

8. Gradiska
Pale Red (1813)
White

9. Peterwardeiner
Light Grey (1813)
Yellow

10. 1st Banal
Crimson (1814)
Yellow

11. 2nd Banal
Crimson (1814)
White

12 Deutsch Banater
Dark Browri/Light Blue (1810)
White

13. Illyrian Banater (later Wallach-Illyrian)
Light Grey (1814)
White

As with the uniform, so with the headgear...

In the final paragraph in this section (page 7), "The earlier headgear, the Casquet, was replaced by the shako with a yellow /black pom-pom both had the 'Anchor' badge of the Ponoonier service. (5] A) All leatherwork . Consequently, a new note 51A needs to be inserted, which will read: 51A August 24th 1808 Clothing and Equipment Regulations' in Rothenburg: 'Croatia' p. 100.

--Dave Hollins

THE PORTUGUESE ARMY IN THE PENINSULA WAR

Readers should note that the superb painting of the Portuguese Cacadore, used to illustrate John Grehan's article in AoN 12 (p. 29) was by Ian Storer. Apologies are extended to Ian for failing to note this at the time. Ian is one of the artists who will be illustrating the new series of Partizan Press books, the first two of which will be on the Portuguese Army and Britain's German Allies.

--Richard Partridge