Synopsis

CHAPTER I. APPOINTMENT OP SIR JOHN MOORE : CHAP.. I. John Moore received official information of his ,Q j heing appointed to command the troops des- October. service. The despatch stated, that the officer commanding the forces of his Majesty in Portuga!, was directed to detach a corps of twenty thousand infantry, with two re* giments of German light cavalry, and a suitable body of artillery, to be placed under his orders, and that this force would be ed by a corps of above ten thousand men, then assembling at Falmouth, under command of Sir David Baird.