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* CRAUFURD, Major-General Robert (Black Bob) (1764-1812)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commanded the Light Division until his death at the siege of Cuidad Rodrigo in January 1812. Irascible and no easy man to serve under but respected by his men and others for making the Light Division a superb fighting unit. When his remains were interred in the breach at Cuidad Rodrigo on 25 January his funeral was attended by every officer in the neighbourhood.

* WINTERBOTTOM, Lieutenant John (1781-1838)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

An adjutant of the 52nd, he rose through the ranks on his own merit from private in 1799 to ensign in 1808 and lieutenant in 1810. He died in Barbados in 1838 of yellow fever.

*‘BEAU DOURO’

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Wellington, Duke of

*‘BEAU, The’

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Wellington, Duke of.

*‘BOMBPROOF MAN’

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Palmer, ‘Mankiller’.

*‘DOLORES’

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A beauty to whom Kincaid takes a shine to in Salamanca, she is tall, a brunette with very white teeth and a pair of entrancing dimples. Juana Smith does not think her ‘ladylike’.

*’OLD HOOKEY’

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Wellington, Duke of.

*AISEY, Paddy

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Philosophises over the sack of Badajos (1812) while brewing up spicy wine in a camp kettle.

*ALAVA, General Don Miguel de (1771-1843)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A short sallow-faced Spaniard. Commissar to Wellington during the Peninsular War.

*ALEXANDER, Emperor of Russia (1777-1825)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A little difficult to deal with, was an ally of Napoleon’s.

*ALGEO, J H, Colonel

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Portuguese colonel who dies in the battle at the Pyrenees and whose horse is the dead-spit of Harry Smith’s horse, Old Chap.

*ALLEN, Humphrey

THE SPANISH BRIDE

95th regiment. Almost does his ankle ‘to a cows thumb’ during a night march in 1813.

*ALLEN, Rifleman

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Brings a French Colonel to Kincaid after Badajos (1812), believing it’s the Governor Phillipon and he’ll get a reward.

*ALTEN, Major-General Baron Victor von

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From the Kings German Legion (KGL). In 1812 he was 48 years old, a ‘hard-bitten warrior with a dark hatchet-face, stern bright eyes and a strong German accent.’ He was appointed to command the Light Division taking over from the provisional commander, Barnard, and was liked because he knows his work and never loses his calm. His Brigade majors include Kempt and Vandeleur (who is followed by Skerrett).

*ANGOULEME, Duc d’ (Comte de Pradel) Louis de Bourbon (1775-1844)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Rather an odd person, who visits the Duke of Wellington.

*ANSON

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Anson’s horses cover the baggage train out of Rueda. Norman Ramsay’s artillery troop is attached to his brigade.

*ARENTSCHILDT, Colonel

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Colonel in the cavalry, German Hussars.

*BALLARD Sergeant

THE SPANISH BRIDE

In the 95th regiment.

*BALLASTEROS General

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Spanish officer who publishes a manifesto objecting to Wellington being made Generalissimo of the Spanish armies in 1812, attempts a coup d’état and is then arrested.

*BALVAIRD

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of the rank and file that George Simmons finds dead after Badajos (1812), along with Stokes, Crampton and McDermid.

*BARNARD, Colonel (Andrew Francis) (b.1773)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

In temporary command of the Light Division at the siege of Badajos in 1812, replacing General Craufurd who had been killed 2 months before at Cuidad Rodrigo. The Light Division consists of the 95th, 52nd and 43rd as well as the 1st and 3rd Portuguese Caçadores. Likes to eat well and has a French cook. Kincaid is his adjutant in 1813. Very badly wounded in the Pyrenees but cared for by George Simmons. In 1814 he takes over command of the 2nd brigade (where Harry Smith serves) from Colonel Colborne. He is also colonel of the 1st battalion of the 95th.

*BAROSSA

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Dan Cadoux’s horse, on whose tail Harry Smith gets a ride across the river when his own horse refuses.

*BATES, Jenny

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The rough woman that Harry Smith finds to wait on Juana. Gruff and dour, she watches over Juana like a ‘sour-tempered yet faithful mastiff.’ In her spare moments she pursues a never-ending feud with Harry’s groom, West, and she despises Harry’s batman, Joe Kitchen.

*BATHURST, Lord, (Henry, 3rd Earl) (1762-1835)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

British Secretary of State for War during Waterloo. He is married to a sister of the 4th Duchess of Richmond.

*BECKWITH, Charles (later Major General) (1789-1862) ?

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of Harry Smith’s friends and also a Brigade-Major. He drags Harry out of Badajos (1812) before he tries to stop the pillaging. He has a leg removed at Waterloo.

*BECKWITH, Colonel Thomas Sidney(1772-1831 )

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Nephew: Charles Beckwith

Lieutenant Colonel with the 95th, wounded slightly at Sabugal on April 3, 1811. Good-natured, he encouraged his troops in amusements, as well as showing gallantry on the battlefield. Harry Smith serves as Beckwith’s ADC after he gets a ball in his ankle. As soon as Harry can walk, he goes back to his regiment, but Beckwith admires him for this.

*BELL, John

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From the 43rd, a friend of Harry Smith’s whom Juana Smith visits while he is sick.

*BERESFORD, General William Carr (later Viscount) (1768-1854)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commanded the Portuguese army. Wounded at Salamanca (1812).

*BERKELEY, Admiral

THE SPANISH BRIDE

In command of the squadron at Lisbon in 1812; sends the wrong calibre guns up to the siege at Badajos.

*BLACK PRINCE Edward, eldest son of Edward III and Queen Philippa (1330-1376).

THE SPANISH BRIDE

George Simmons notes that he too fought at Vittoria.

*BLAKENEY

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Possibly Edward Blakeney, Lt.-Colonel of the 7th Foot. Invited by Skerrett to his grand dinner in the Pyrenees.

*BLUCHER, Marschal Gebhard Lebrecht von (1742-1819)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AKA: Old Marshal Forwards’ or ‘Marschal Vorwarts’

Head of the Prussian army, takes over command from Kleist. Gets his nickname from encouraging the troops on.

*BONNET

THE SPANISH BRIDE

With Foy, commands in Marmont’s Army of Portugal.

*BRENNIER, Commander

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French commander that Napoleon sends to blockade Cuidad Rodrigo after Wellington takes it in 1812. His Division comes up against le Marchant’s dragoons at Salamanca (1812) and le Marchant is killed.

*BrotherTON, Sergeant

THE SPANISH BRIDE

In the 95th with Harry Smith.

*BROWN, Captain

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From the Royal Wagon Train attached to General Hill, he is ejected from his billet by an infuriated Vandeleur at Aravaca.

*BRUNSWICK, Frederick William, Duke of (1771-1815)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Sister: The Princess of Wales

Commander of the ‘Black Brunswickers’, who wear all black and a skull and crossbones on their uniform in memory of the Duke’s father who was killed at the battle of Jena. ‘A Handsome man and Gallant in the field’.

*BURKE

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From the 95th, has ‘volunteered for more forlorn hopes than anyone else’.

*BURKE Doctor

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From the 95th, and loved by every man in the Light Division. Helps Juana Smith when she breaks her foot.

*CADOUX, Captain (Daniel) (d 1813)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

With his ‘soft, finicking way’, ‘dandified dress’ and lisp, Harry Smith can’t bear Cadoux at first. In the Recollections of Rifleman Harris (1848), ‘I remember there was an officer named, I think, Cardo, with the Rifles. He was a great beau, but although rather effeminate and ladylike in manners, so as to be remarked by the whole Regiment at that time, was found to be a most gallant officer when we were engaged with the enemy in the field. He was killed whilst fighting bravely in the Pyrenees, and amongst other jewellery he wore, he had a ring on his finger worth one hundred and fifty guineas.’

*CAMERON, Colonel (Alexander)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

For whom Kincaid is acting as Adjutant at Badajos (1812); in Barnard’s Light Division. Kincaid wrote: ‘Of him I can truly say, that, as a friend his heart was in the right place, and, as a soldier his right place was at the head of a regiment in the face of the enemy.’

*CAMPBELL, Colonel Colin(1776-1847)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of the Duke of Wellington’s members of staff and renowned for mangling any language, having no facility at all to learn them. Wellington is quoted as saying, ‘He speaks no language but his own, and that very badly.’ He was, however, very well liked.

*CARGILL, Subaltern

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A ‘very Scotch subaltern of the 52nd’ under whose escort the 400 French who surrendered to Colborne who had bluffed them into believing his party of 4 was actually a far greater force. He gets to spend the night under shelter instead of out in the rain like everyone else.

*CASTLES, ‘Fat Johnny’

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Says France and Spain are all the same to him.

*CELESTE, Madam

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The milliner that Juana Smith meets in London who recommends respectable lodgings at 11 Panton Square.

*CERVANTES, Miguel de (1547-1616)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Author of Don Quixote, MIP when the army moves to Alcala, his birthplace.

*CHARLOTTE, Princess (1796-1817)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: The Prince Regent

Mother: The Princess of Wales.

*CLAUSEL, Count (Bernard) (1772-1842)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Army of Portugal. He takes over from Marmont after the defeat of the French at Salamanca (1812) and is sent north in 1813 to prevent the arms coming in for Longa, the Spanish guerrilla chief.

*CLINTON, Sir Henry

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Besieges the Salamanca forts (1812).

*COCHRANE, Thomas (Tom)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French cavalry almost sweep away his company when they pursue the retreating French after Vittoria. A second Lt in the 95th foot, promoted to 1st Lt on 22 February 1809, he was well respected by his men, but died a few years after Waterloo, having been severely wounded at Barossa in 1811.

*COLBORNE, Colonel John (1778-1863) (Later Baron Seaton)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From the 52nd regiment, got a ball in his shoulder at Cuidad Rodrigo (1812) which sent him home to England. Warmly greeted by Wellington when he returns in late 1813. He has ‘a handsome face, with its high armed nose and fine dark eyes’. Harry Smith serves as his Brigade Major when Skerrett goes home on sick leave. Has a servant called MacCurrie.

*COLE, Hon. Lt.-General Sir Galbraith Lowry (1772-1842)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Appointed to Wellington's staff in 1809 and commanded the 4th division at the battles of Albuhera, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivlee, Orthes, and Toulouse. Wounded at Salamanca - given the order of Bath while on campaign in Cuidad Rodrigo 1812-13 winter cantonments.

*COTTON, Stapleton (later 1st Viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A cavalry general put temporarily in charge of the Light Division while they are in Rueda. Wounded at Salamanca (1812). Known as ‘Lion D’Or’. He is not as good a cavalry commander as Lord Uxbridge who takes over the cavalry at Waterloo.

*CRAMPTON

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of the rank and file that George Simmons finds dead after Badajos (1812), along with Stokes, Balvaird and McDermid.

*CRAUFURD, Mrs

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A tall, kind woman with a number of daughters, married to General Craufurd (not Bob Craufurd).

*CRAWLEY, ‘Tom’

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From Costello, one of his friends in the 95th.

*CROUDACE, Christopher (d 1812)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

1st Lieutenant, 95th Foot. Killed at the storming of Badajoz and a close friend of Quartermaster Surtees.

*CUESTA, Don Gregorio Garcia de la (1740-1812)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Spanish General, he abandoned the British wounded to the French after Talavera, ‘adding loathing to the contempt’ felt by the British soldiers for the Spanish. Old and infirm, he travelled mainly by coach or supported by a servant on either side of him while in the saddle. Died in retirement in Majorca.

*CUIDAD RODRIGO, Bishop of

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Lays a solemn curse on the members of the Light Division for turning a disused chapel into a theatre in Gallegos during the winter cantonments of 1812-13.

*DADDY HILL

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Hill, Lord

*DALBIAC, Susannah

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A good deal older than Juana Smith, deeply tanned, with weather-beaten skin and careworn lines at the corners of her eyes. Her husband is a Colonel of the 4th Dragoons whom she followed throughout the Peninsula campaign. From The Diary of Lady Shelley: ‘Mrs. D'Albiac, wife of the general of that name, has followed her husband during the whole campaign in Spain; and, though she was always considered to be very delicate while in England, has borne many fatigues under which men have sunk. The retreat from Burgos, however, very nearly destroyed her.’

*DALHOUSIE, Lord

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Put in command over Picton at the battle of Vittoria. It is he who with the 7th Division looks over Bordeaux while the allied army advances further into France.

*DAWSON, Captain Henry (d 1812)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Of the 52nd, killed at the ford of San Munoz while Juana Smith is with the regiment, aged 24.

*DE BURGH, Colonel (Ulysses)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Wellington’s ADC, an interested onlooker when Harry Smith takes Juana and her sister to meet Wellington.

*de LANCEY, General (Sir William) (1781-1815)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Served with Wellington in the Peninsula; Quartermaster-General at the time of Waterloo, when he had only been married a matter of months. He had been born in America.

*DEAN, Willy

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Juana Smith knows all about the men in the army and tells Harry that Willy gets boils when in Alemtejo, but she has given him some ointment for them.

*DICK, Captain

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Captain on board the Royal Oak when Harry Smith boards to travel to America.

*DICKSON, Colonel

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Officer in the Engineers who takes over from Colonel Fletcher.

*DIGBY, Robert (Bob)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Little man, of the 52nd, who helps pull Juana Smith and Tiny out of the River. He is also Barnard’s ADC. He realises that Juana is heading back to Mont de Marsan to return the Sèvres bowl to the widow there and accompanies her.

*DOLORES DE LEON, Senor

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Sister: Juana Smith

A soldier, killed by the French.

*DOLORES DE LEON, Senora

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Sister: Juana Smith

Taller than Juana, with a handsome, careworn face, she is no longer in the first blush of youth but has dark eyes, fine features and the bearing of a princess. She knows Colonel Campbell and Lord Fitzroy Somerset from when they were billeted with her after Talavera. She is married to a Spanish officer.

*DRAKE

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Dalhousie’s QMG and old friend of Harry Smith’s.

*DRAKE, Mr

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A wealthy merchant who had married a Spaniard and entertains Harry Smith when he reaches Havana.

*DROUET

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French commander, he had been attacking General Hill in Cadiz but in mid-1812 suddenly lifts the attack and marches off, presumably to join Soult.

*DUFFY, Captain

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The man whose company Harry Smith seizes to lead in the siege of Cuidad Rodrigo (1812).

*DUPONT, Madame

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The respectable French emigrée with whom Juana Smith boards at 11 Panton Square.

*EELES, Lieutenant (Charlie) (d.1815)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A friend of Harry Smith’s, in the 95th. Killed at Waterloo while serving as Brigade-Major to Kempt.

*ELLEY, Lt.-Colonel Sir John (d 1839)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Recommends Harry Smith for service in America. A cavalry man, he was Assistant Adjutant General to Cotton at Salamanca having joined as a private and risen on his merits.

*EMPEROR the

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Napoleon.

*ERLON, D’

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French commander that is rumoured to be near the allied forces in the pass of Maya in the Pyrenees with 20,000 men (July 1813).

*ERSKINE, Sir William Howe (1769-1813)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A baron and not much liked by Harry Smith and his friends after his blunder at Sabugal. He was 12 when he gained his first appointment in the army and served in the 27th foot retiring on half pay in 1813.

*ESPA—A, Don Carlos de

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commands a Spanish contingent in Wellington’s army.

*EVANS, Lieutenant George de Lacey (1787-1870)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AQMG to General Ross and meets Harry Smith on the Royal Oak.

*FALLS, Captain (Tom)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

ADC to General Ross and whom Harry Smith meets on the Royal Oak. He is of the 20th and returns with Harry to England with dispatches from America on the Iphigenia.

*FANE, Tom

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AKA: Ugly Tom

General Skerrett’s ADC, known as ‘Ugly Tom’ for his pleasant but ugly countenance.

*FERDINAND VII (1784-1833)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Restored to the throne of Spain after Napoleon was beaten - determined to rule as a despot.

*FEREY

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French Division commander in Marmont’s Army of Portugal.

*FITZHERBERT, Mrs (Maria Anna) (1756-1837)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Husband: The Prince Regent

Her marriage to the Prince Regent in the 1780s was not legal because he had not received the King’s approval. He married again, in 1795, Princess Caroline of Brunswick. Maria Fitzherbert was a twice-widowed, an actress and a Roman Catholic.

*FLEMING, Sergeant

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Who had always been with O’Hare and had died beside him in the storming of Badajos (1812) as one of the ‘forlorn hope’.

*FLETCHER, Lt.-Colonel (Richard) (d.1813)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Senior Engineer at the siege of Badajos (1812), wounded early on and giving instructions from his bed. Left behind at Badajoz to repair the fortifications against the French should they decide to retake it he was also the brains behind the remarkable fortifications at Torres Vedras. Killed at San Sebastian in August 1813.

*FOY, General Maximilien

THE SPANISH BRIDE

With Bonnet commands in Marmont’s Army of Portugal. He commands a Division.

*FREDERICK-WILLIAM III, KING (1770-1840)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

King of Prussia who visits Britain in 1814.

*FREIRE, General

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Spanish commander who has the honour, with two British Divisions, of receiving the French assault at Vera. He nervously approaches Wellington asking for reinforcements, but the day is already won.

*FRERE, ‘Little’

Probably a misspelling of
FREER, Ensign (Edward).

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From the 43rd Regiment. Harry Smith sees him at the storming of Badajoz (1812). His extraordinary bravery is mentioned in Smith’s autobiography, where he is called ‘little Freer’.

*GAZAN, Madame de, Comtesse

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Wife of a French General, found by Mr Larpent in a carriage following the route of the French at Vittoria - she has lost her little boy somewhere and is taken into Lord Wellington’s headquarters.

*GILMOUR, Major

THE SPANISH BRIDE

In charge of the first battalion of the 95th regiment in the absence of Barnard, he builds a mud hut to live in, which he passes on to the Smiths with disastrous results.

*GIRON

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A Spanish Commander of Andalusians, first mentioned in the war in the Pyrenees at the end of 1813.

*GONSALEZ

THE SPANISH BRIDE

With whom Harry and Juana Smith are billeted in Offala. A ‘big muscular’ fellow but slightly mad and with some very disturbing items in his cellar.

*GORDON, Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Alexander (1786-1815)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Uncle: Sir David Baird

Lt.-Colonel of the 3rd Foot Guards and one of Wellington's staff . Killed at Waterloo serving as ADC to Wellington. Not to be confused with Alexander Gordon, Lt.-Colonel of the 83rd Foot who was killed at Talavera in 1809.

*GORE, The Honourable Charles (Charlie)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

ADC to General Kempt, ‘A young gentleman of means’ who gives a ball when they reach Sanguessa.

*GRAHAM, General Thomas (1748-1843)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Suffering from some kind of eye trouble and has to return home in mid 1812; a blow to Wellington as he is one of his most trusted generals. Later created 1st Baron Lynedoch.

*GRAY, Charlie

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Killed at the storming of Badajos (1812).

*GREEN, George

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Juana Smith knows all about the men and tells Harry that George has 8 children, 5 of them boys.

*GREVILLE, Charles Cavendish Fulke (1794-1865)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AKA: Punch

Bathurst’s secretary and later the writer of memoirs of the period.

*GRINDLE, Private

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Complains about his corns during a march - a Rifleman in the 95th with Plunkett and Ballard.

*GURWOOD, Lieutenant

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A ‘sharp fellow’ in the 52nd, ‘no friend’ of Harry Smith’s.

*HALKETT, Major General Sir Colin(1774-1856)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Has a brigade at Waterloo.

*HARE, Dr

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Looks after Lord March when he is almost fatally injured at Orthez.

*HARISPE, General

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French general the British come across in 1814 who retreats to a position behind Gave d’Orlon.

*HAVELOCK, William

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AKA: Young Varmint

From the 43rd, friend of Harry Smith and his friends - ‘A scarlet coat amongst the green’.

*HETHERINGTON, Josh

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Enlivens things in the 95th with his ventriloquy. He is mentioned in Costello’s memoirs and they were friends.

*HILL, Lord (Rowland) (1772-1842) Later 1st Viscount

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AKA: Daddy Hill

Given his nickname by the troops for his good nature. A Lieutenant-General who first acts as a mentor to the young and impulsive Prince of Orange, and later is put in control of the Allied army’s 2nd corps, the Reserves for Waterloo. The 2nd corps includes Sir Henry Clinton’s 2nd Division, General Adam’s Brigade, Hew Halketts’ Hanoverian Militia, Colonel Du Plat’s Battalion of the KGL, Baron ChassÈ’s Dutch Belgic Division, Colonel Detmer’s brigade, Count d’AubremÈ’s brigade and General Colville’s 4th Division.

*HOPE, General Sir John (1765-1836)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commands Graham’s force from 1812 when Graham has to return home. Had

his horse shot under him and was captured by the French in April 1814, just as the Peninsular War ended.

*JENKINS

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Harry Smith’s groom at Waterloo who races after Juana Smith when her horse bolts.

*JOHNSON

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Mrs Craufurd’s servant.

*JOHNSTON, Rifleman

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A ‘superb rifleman’ who sends Harry Smith a message of good luck for his wedding, even though he is lying in his tent with a shattered arm.

*JOSEPH, Buonaparte, King of Spain (1768-1844)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AKA: Pepe Botellas

Put on the throne by his brother Napoleon, but very unpopular, he also commands the French Army of the Centre, but badly. He does not get on with Soult who he gets rid of in early 1813.

*JOURDAN, Comte (Jean-Baptiste) (1762-1833)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Marshall in the French Army - left to defend Burgos in 1813 and has to do a hasty retreat. It is his Marshall’s baton which is captured by Wellington’s army.

*KEMPT, Major-General Sir James (1764-1854)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Heads one of the Brigades in the Light Division in the Peninsula, a Colonel of the 81st Foot.

*KINCAID, Captain (John) (1787-1862)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AKA: Johnny

Captain in the 95th Regiment, a Scot and a close friend of Harry Smith. Later wrote two books about his experiences in the army. Acting Adjutant for Cameron at Badajos (1812) and later Barnard in 1813. Tall and charming, little can shake his ‘lazy unconcern’. Very susceptible to female charms (SEE: Dolores) and a good friend to Juana Smith.

*KITCHEN, Joe

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Harry Smith’s batman, who gets sent to beg, borrow or steal a mattress for Juana when she first arrives.

*KNIGHT OF THE WOEFUL COUNTENANCE

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Pedro, Don

*LAMBERT, General Sir John

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A guardsman for whom Harry Smith is Major of Brigade at Waterloo. Lambert’s brigade is the 4th, 27th, 40th and 81st.

*LARPENT, Francis Seymour (1776-1845)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The new Judge-Advocate who arrives in early 1813. He later wrote a book on his experiences.

*LE MARCHANT, Lt.-Colonel John Gaspard (1776-1812)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

6th Dragoon Guards, killed at Salamanca when they clash with Brennier’s Division. In Stapleton Cotton’s Division, he leads the 12th Dragoons. Instituted a system of manoeuvres and exercises for the cavalry.

*LEACH, Captain Jonathan

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From the 95th, at Waterloo the command of the battalion falls to him until he is wounded.

*LEITH, General (Sir James)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commands the 5th Division at Badajos and wounded at Salamanca (both 1812).

*LENNOX, Lord (John) George (1793-1873)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Brother: Lord March

Later a Lieutenant Colonel.

*LIVERPOOL, 2nd Earl of (Robert Banks Jenkinson)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Secretary of War under Prime Minister Spencer Perceval 1809-12.

*LLEWELLYN, Lieutenant (Henry)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Cadoux's lieutenant when trying to defend the bridge with a hopelessly undermanned company in August 1813 during the battle of the Pyrenees. He survived with a shattered jaw and was granted a pension of £70 p.a.

*LOLA

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of Harry Smith’s hounds who has ‘whelped again’ at Whittlesey while Harry is in America.

*LONGA

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Guerrilla chief.

*LONG-NOSE

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Wellington, Duke of.

*LOUIS XVIII (1755-1824)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The unpopular King of France set on the throne by the allies in 1814 when Napoleon abdicated. With Napoleon’s return to the France in March of 1815 Louis, realising his lack of support literally flew out the backdoor of the palace as Napoleon came to the front and took refuge in Belgium with his nephews the Duc de Berri and Duc d’Angouleme. His brother later became Charles X.

*LYNCH, Jean-Baptiste

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A very respectable old gentleman of Irish-Jacobite extraction and a lawyer.

*MacCURRIE

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Colonel Colborne’s servant whom Juana Smith thinks neglects him.

*MACDONELL (also spelt Macdonnell), Lt.-Colonel (James) (later Sir)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: Duncan Macdonell of Glengarry

Of the Coldstream Guards which held the Chateau de Hougoumont to terrible loss during the battle of Waterloo, he was later called the bravest man at Waterloo. When the French gained entry into Hougoumont it was Macdonell who was instrumental in closing the gates and he could be seen walking around the courtyard carrying a huge log in his arms to help barricade the gates. He had already served with distinction in the Peninsula.

*MACLEOD, Colonel (Charles)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

He is ‘done for’ at the storming of Badajos (1812), but gets Harry Smith to help him up the ladder. Harry mourns his death. Napier wrote later that his ‘feeble body would have been quite unfit for war, if it had not been sustained by an unconquerable spirit.’

*MAID of SARAGOSSA

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Sanchez, Agostina

*MAITLAND, General Sir Peregrine (1777 - 1854)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

He commanded the 1st brigade of the Guards at Waterloo and married Lady Sarah Lennox, second daughter of the Duke of Richmond.

*MALCOLM, Admiral

THE SPANISH BRIDE

On the Royal Oak when Harry Smith boards to go to America. He is impressed with Harry’s ability to hold his liquor and shows him over the boat.

*MALING

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Surgeon who attends to Lord March and digs out the ball when he is wounded at Orthez.

*MARCH, Earl of (Charles Lennox) (1791-1860)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Heir to the Dukedom of Richmond, March was wounded at Orthez in 1814. He had been one of Wellington’s ADCs but decided to leave to take up his commission in the 52nd and learn more of an officer’s work in the line. Well liked.

*MARIA, Cousin

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of the relatives Juana Smith ruthlessly kills off in her stories to wheedle rations out of a warm-hearted hostess. Cousin Maria flung herself on a bayonet.

*MARMONT, Auguste Frederic Louis Viesse de (1774-1852)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French Army Commander who succeeded Massena in 1812. He commands the French Army of Portugal.

*MASSÉNA, Andre (1758-1817)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French Marshal, the command of whose army was subsequently given to Marmont. One of Napoleon’s most able commanders. He also had an insatiable desire for loot and women. Recklessly brave and inspired commander.

*MAUCCUNE

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French, commands the first of Marmont’s Divisions to move at the Battle of Salamanca (1812). It is a brigade of his at the rear of the French army in retreat from Burgos in 1813 that the 95th stumble over accidentally while marching and give a surprise attack.

*MC DERMID

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of the rank and file that George Simmons finds dead after Badajos (1812), along with Stokes, Crampton, and Balvaird.

*MCGRIGOR, Doctor James (later Sir James) (1771-1858)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A Scotsman, and Chief of Medical Staff. He offers to carry a message for Wellington at Badajos (1812) when mistaken for De Lancey.

*MEIN, Captain (William, Billy)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A friend of Harry Smith’s in the 52nd, he had a very long and distinguished service record and was put on half pay in July 1816. He was granted a pension of £300 p.a. because of the wounds that he received in the war and retired to Cumberland.

*MEYERS, Mr

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A tailor and general merchant of Spithead. When Harry Smith returns from America with dispatches he hopes to extract information and make a profit.

*MIŇAS

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Spanish commander whose ‘wild guerrillas’ were approaching a state of open mutiny in France.

*MOLLOY, Jack

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Friend of Harry Smith. Captain of a company in the 95th Rifles which he calls by the nickname for the 95th ‘sweeps’. He is hit at Waterloo but not badly.

*MOORE, Sir John (1761-1809)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

He led the Peninsular campaign from 1808 and was killed in January 1809 defending his retreat from Corunna from the French. Harry Smith served with him in Sweden.

*MORO

THE SPANISH BRIDE

‘Sagacious hound’ belonging to Harry Smith.

*MURILLO

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Spanish artist – Soult removes many of his pictures as plunder when he leaves Spain in 1813.

*MURRAY, Sir George (1772 - 1846)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The Duke of Wellington’s Quartermaster General (QMG) through the Peninsula campaigns and currently in America as part of the British forces sent there for the war of 1812-14. He is trusted implicitly by Wellington and Murray seems to understand perfectly what Wellington is about.

*NAPIER, Captain (William) (1785-1860)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Brothers: Charles, George

An officer of the 43rd Regiment., he wrote the first historical record of the Peninsular war.

*NAPIER, Major (Charles) (1782-1853)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Brothers: George, William

On Wellington’s staff from 1810-1812, he was the only one dressed in scarlet as opposed to the more usual blue.

*NAPIER, Major (George) (1784-1855)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Brothers: Charles, William

Officer of the 52nd regiment. Lost an arm at Cuidad Rodrigo (1812).

*NAPOLEON (1769-1821)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Brother: King Joseph of Spain

Napoleon never came up against Wellington on the Peninsula. The only time Napoleon travelled to Spain to personally direct the army was in 1808 when he drove Sir John Moore out. Napoleon had greater ambitions in the north of Europe and left the Spanish campaign to a series of increasingly unsatisfactory Marshals.

*NEY, Michel (1769-1815)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of Napoleon’s Marshals, who engaged the British in battle at Quatre Bras to prevent them reaching, and assisting the Prussians at Ligny on the 16th of June. His small force is beaten but the tactic is successful, the Prussians are defeated at Ligny by Napoleon’s main force and both armies are forced to retreat.

*NORCOTT, Colonel (Amos Godsill) (b. 1777)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

An adjutant who questions the orders Harry Smith has given him from Skerrett regarding holding the bridge at Vera.

*O’BRIEN, Rifleman

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Irishman in the 95th regiment, admires Harry Smith’s ‘flow of bad language’ and complains about the siege works at Badajos (1812).

*O’DONNELL, Rifleman

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A Rifleman who was injured; Harry Smith finds a ride on a gun tumbril for him, but all movement is agony and he dies 2 hours later.

*O’HARE, Major

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commands the 95th storming party of Badajos (1812) and is killed.

*O’LALOR, General

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Spanish, helped Colin Campbell organise the ball for Sir Lowry Cole in Almeida when he was given the Order of the Bath.

*OLD CHAP

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Harry Smith’s horse - picks up a nail in winter quarters 1812-13.

*ORANGE, William, Prince of (1792 - 1849)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Later William VII of the Netherlands. One of Wellington’s ADCs.

*PACK, Sir Denis (1772?-1823)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commands the Portuguese brigade in Wellington’s Army.

*PADDY

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Horse belonging to Harry Smith, ‘the clumsiest brute alive’.

*PAGET, General (Sir Edward) (1775-1849)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Just arrived as second in command of the army and is taken prisoner on the retreat from Madrid, November 1812. He is short-sighted, as well as one-armed.

*PAKENHAM, Sir Edward (1778-1815)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Nickname: Ned

Brother-in-law: The Duke of Wellington

In temporary command of the Fighting Third Division, while Picton is recuperating from injuries, including at the battle of Salamanca (1812). Appointed to command the 6th Division when Picton returns in April 1813. He travels to America with General Ross and is appointed to succeed him after Ross is killed there. Harry Smith is appointed as his Assistant Adjutant-General.

*PALMER, ‘Mankiller’

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Tells Tom Crawley to ‘kill a Frenchman for himself’ before Badajos (1812) (from Costello). Re-named ‘The Bombproof man’ after Badajos. ‘Married’ to Pepita about whom Juana Smith inquires politely.

*PARKER, Captain

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Temporarily in charge of the Chestnut Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery (attached to the Light Division) when Captain Ross is wounded in the siege of Badajos (1812). Modifies a saddle for Juana Smith to start learning to ride.

*PEDRO, DON

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Nickname: Knight of the Woeful Countenance

The probably disreputable priest that Harry and Juana Smith take with them from Madrid on the retreat. Vicar of Vicalbaro.

*PEER, the

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Wellington, Duke of

*PENROSE, Admiral

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Unable to form a bridge with his boats across the Adour because of the big seas on the coast in 1814, preceding the battle of Orthez.

*PEPE BOTELLAS

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: King Joseph

*PEPITA

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commonlaw wife to ‘Mankiller’ Palmer.

Juana Smith asks Palmer if her ague is better.

*PETERS

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The officer on Garrison duty who greets Juana Smith at the Hotel de Ville and offers to take her to Craufurd for accommodation in Antwerp.

*PHILLIPON, General

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French Commander and Governor of the fortress of Badajos in 1812.

*PICTON, Sir Thomas (1758-1815)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commands the ‘Fighting 3rd Division’ in the Peninsula. Invalided out for much of 1812 and returns in April of 1813. Dislikes the Light Division. He is a loud-mouthed rough character, prone to vernacular speech, but much loved by his own Division.

*PLUNKETT, Thomas

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A friend of Costello’s and mentioned in his book Adventures of a Soldier.

*POPHAM, Sir Home

THE SPANISH BRIDE

British Admiral - pouring munitions into Spain in the north in 1813.

*POWER

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commands a brigade of Portuguese at the siege of Badajos (1812).

*PRICE, Miss

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The dull but genteel tutor engaged to teach Juana Smith English at 11 Panton Square and whom Juana finds boring, asking for a male teacher instead. She is quite happy not to teach Juana as she thinks her behaviour borders on impropriety.

*PRINCE of Orange

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: William Prince of Orange.

*PRINCE REGENT (1762-1830)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Prince of Wales, later George IV. Sends eight showy grey stallions to Wellington as a gift. The Prince Regent enjoyed the fiction that he had been present in many of the Peninsula battles, and at Waterloo. He was also addicted to showy military uniforms. He never served a day in action.

*PRUSSIA, King of

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Frederick William III.

*RADCLIFFE, Mrs (1764-1823)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Writer of ‘horrid’ tales such as ‘Romance of the Forest’ and ‘Mysteries of Udolpho’. The countryside around Frenada reminds the British army of the settings for her stories.

*RAMSAY, Norman (d 1815)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

An artillery officer whose battery smashes through the French at Vittoria is picked as a scapegoat for the problems there by Lord Wellington, much to the ire of all the rest of the army which has seen his bravery and loyalty.

*REGENT, Prince

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Prince Regent.

*RIVIÈRE, Madam la

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The Smiths’ hostess at Castel Sarrasin after the battle of Toulouse.

*ROSS, Captain (Hew Dalrymple) (1779-1868)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From the Chestnut Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery which is attached to the Light Division. Captain Parker is put temporarily in charge when Captain Ross is wounded in the siege of Badajos (1812). He was the first artilleryman to reach the rank of Field-Marshal.

*ROSS, Colonel John

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A friend of Juana and Harry Smith’s from the 95th Rifles 3rd battalion who is in London in 1814 when Juana is there learning English.

*ROSS, Major-General Robert (died 1814)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

In charge of the force of three brigades to America in 1814 following the French defeat in the Peninsular War. His ADC is Tom Falls and his AQMG is Lieutenant De Lacey Evans. A mild- looking man in his late forties, he dies at Baltimore and the Prince Regent allowed his family to bear the name ‘Ross of Blandenburg’, after his previous victory.

*ROWAN, Major (Charles)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of Harry Smith’s friends from the 52nd who is on the QMG’s staff. Later Colonel Rowan (from 1848 Sir Charles Rowan, KCB) was Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force from its institution in 1829 till 1850. He died in 1852.

*RUSSIA, Emperor of

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Alexander.

*SANCHEZ, Agostina or Manuela

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AKA: Maid of Saragossa

A heroine of the Spanish resistance who helped man the cannon of Saragossa (1808/9)while the French tried to take it. She took over when her lover died. She is immortalised in poetry (Byron) and art (Goya).

*SANCHEZ, Don Julian

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Whose Spanish guerrillas infest the roads killing the French.

*SARGANT, Alice (1789-1869)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Harry, Tom, Samuel, Mary, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Stona, Anna, Charlie, William and others

Harry Smith’s favourite sister, married by 1814 when Juana Smith arrives in London and living in Clapton.

*SCOVELL, Mrs

THE SPANISH BRIDE

The only woman at Headquarters during the winter cantonments of 1812-13 in Frenada. She gives occasional loo parties.

*SCOVELL, Sir George

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Assistant Quarter Master General at Headquarters in Waterloo.

*SEXTON’S DAUGHTER

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Pepita.

*SIMMONS, Ann

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of George’s younger sisters for whom he sits for a portrait in Madrid.

*SIMMONS, George (b. 17986/6?)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Brothers; Maud, Joseph

Of the 95th, a friend of Harry Smith’s. Subsequently wrote memoirs of A British Rifleman. Very good-natured but ‘rather a serious young man’, he has a tendency to lecture his brothers, for whom he feels responsible. A medical officer in the militia before joining the 95th as a lieutenant in 1809, this is useful when Colonel Barnard is injured in the Pyrenees. He is shot through the liver at Waterloo but survives.

*SIMMONS, Joseph

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Brothers: George, Maud

An engaging youth who enlisted as a volunteer. Would like to serve with his brother Maud who is in the 34th. He gets a pair of wings (i.e. his commission) in the Rifles.

*SIMMONS, Maud

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Brothers: George, Joseph

Ensign in the 34th Foot. An improvident gentleman who is wounded during the battle of the Pyrenees.

*SKERRET, General

THE SPANISH BRIDE

He comes from the 4th Division to take over a brigade in the Light Division from Vandeleur with very poor results in the Pyrenees and is encouraged to return home to Britain. He is nice enough but a ‘trifle starchy’ which will never do for the Light Division. He has a reputation for courage that almost amounts to rashness. His ADC is Tom Fane and he has an abysmal cook. Colonel T. Bunbury, Reminiscences of a Veteran, i. p. 116, gives a similar account: ‘Skerrett as an individual was brave to rashness; but I should have doubted it had I not so frequently witnessed proofs of his cool intrepidity and contempt of danger. At the head of troops, he was the most undecided, timid, and vacillating creature I ever met with.’.

*SMITH, Alice

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: SARGANT, Mrs

*SMITH, Anna

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Harry, Tom, Samuel, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Stona, Eleanor, William and others

Whom Tom says has ‘grown out of all her knowledge’ in 1814.

*SMITH, Brigade-Major (Harry George Wakelyn) (1787-1860)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Tom, Samuel, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Stona, Anna, Eleanor, Charlie, William and others

A thin ‘wiry young man rising 25 with a dark mobile countenance, and a body hardened by 7 years service with the 95th’. He is also ‘sporting mad’, and very lucky; he has only been injured once in all those years, by a shot in the ankle. Even then, he insisted on serving as Beckwith’s ADC until the ball was cut out; though he couldn’t walk, he could ride and eat. Colonel Barnard thinks him ‘a damned good duty-officer’ while his friends call him ‘crazy as a coot’. Along with Kincaid, he meets Juana when she appears with her sister in the British camp as refugees from the sack of Badajos (1812) and falls in love at first sight, ignoring all impediments to their marriage. She sees in him ‘a vivid, vital creature’ with a spirit to match her own. One of the ‘Come-ons’, popular with his men. Brigade-Major to the Second Rifle Brigade headed successively by Vandeleur, Skerrett and Colborne. Travels to America as Deputy-Adjutant-General for Ross but returns in time for the battle of Waterloo.

*SMITH, Charles (1795 -1854)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Harry, Tom, Samuel, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Stona, Anna, William and others

Familial nickname: ‘Charlie’

One of Harry Smith’s brothers who lives with Uncle Davie and is plaguing his father to join the army. A Volunteer with the 1st Battalion 95th at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, after which he received a commission as Second Lieutenant. Two or three years later he retired from the army and settled at Whittlesey. He became JP and DL for Cambridgeshire, and Lieut.-Colonel of the Yeomanry Cavalry of the county and died at Whittlesey on 24 Dec. 1854.

*SMITH, Eleanor

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Harry, Tom, Samuel, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Stona, Anna, Charlie, William and others

One of Harry Smith’s sisters who might ‘boss’ Juana if she is sent there. She is the family scholar, ‘dear, dreamy Eleanor’.

*SMITH, Eleanor (nee Moore) (1760-12 Dec. 1813)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Husband: John

Children: Harry, Tom, Samuel, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Stona, Anna, Charlie, William and others

Harry has a prophetic dream about her death on what turns out to be the night she actually died. There were 14 children in the Smith family, 11 of which survived infancy.

*SMITH, Elizabeth

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Harry, Tom, Samuel, Mary, Alice, Stona, Anna, Eleanor, Charlie, William and others

Familial nickname: ‘Betsy’

One of Harry Smith’s sisters who might ‘boss’ Juana if she is sent there. She is the housekeeper.

*SMITH, John (1756-1843)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Wife: Eleanor

Children: Harry, Tom, Samuel, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Stona, William and others

*SMITH, Juana (nee Juana Maria de los Dolores de Leon) (d.1872)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Husband: Harry Smith

Arrives in the British camp with her sister as a refugee from the sack of Badajos (1812), she is from one of the best Spanish families. She has the ‘sweetest little face’ but when she first meets Harry Smith and Kincaid it is ‘woefully pale’. Her fairness of skin is more English than Spanish. She has eyes ‘of a soft brilliance which dazzled Kincaid into thinking that he beheld a beauty’ but is ‘not strictly beautiful’ since her nose is not classic and her mouth too large, with a distinct suggestion of stubbornness. Although Kincaid thinks she looks 17, she is 14 when she meets him and Harry, and she falls in love with Harry (whom she calls Enrique) at first sight. The impression that she can be stubborn, and occasionally mischievous, is not mistaken – but without it she would hardly have survived army life with Harry.

*SMITH, Mary

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Harry, Tom, Samuel, Alice, Elizabeth, Stona, Anna, Eleanor, Charlie, William and others

One of Harry Smith’s sisters who might ‘boss’ Juana if she is sent there.

*SMITH, Samuel

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Harry, Tom, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Stona, Eleanor, Anna, Charlie, William and others

One of Harry Smith’s younger brothers, rather a grave boy who is going to be a surgeon.

*SMITH, Sir Edward

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A gentleman of Shropshire; the Prince Regent asks if Harry Smith is related to him, but Harry is not.

*SMITH, Stona

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Harry, Tom, Samuel, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Anna, Eleanor, Charlie, William and others

Tom says Stona is ‘married now’ (1814).

*SMITH, Thomas Lawrence (Tom) (b 1792-1877)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Harry, Samuel, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Stona, Anna, Charlie, William and others

Harry Smith’s brother who takes charge of Harry’s company in the 95th while Harry is employed on the staff. Thomas Lawrence received his commission in the 95th (Rifle Brigade) on 3 March, 1808, and took part in the actions of Sir John Moore’s expedition to the battle of Corunna. Like his brother Harry, he served with the Light Division throughout the Peninsular War to the Battle of Toulouse, being dangerously wounded at the Coa. He was recommended for promotion for his conduct at Waterloo. He proceeded with his regiment to Paris, and riding as Adjutant at the head of the 2nd Battalion, was the first British officer who entered the city on 7 July, 1815. He went on half-pay in 1817. In 1824 he was appointed Barrack-master, in which capacity he served in Ireland till 1838, when he was transferred to Chatham. On the formation of Aldershot Camp in 1855, he was appointed Principal Barrack-master there, and held his appointment till 1868. On retirement he was made CB and granted a special pension. He died in London on 6 April, 1877, and was buried in the cemetery, Aldershot.

*SMITH, William

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Father: John Smith

Mother: Eleanor Smith

Siblings: Harry, Tom, Samuel, Mary, Alice, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Stona, Anna, Charlie and others

The staidest of Harry Smith’s brothers; rather bookish.

*SMYTH, Captain (Charles)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Brigade Major to Colonel Pack who dies at Waterloo. The news confuses Juana who fears that is her husband Brigade Major Harry Smith who has been killed.

*SOMERSET, Lord Edward (1776-1842)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

With Sir Hussey Vivian, the commander of the Household Brigade of Cavalry at Waterloo.

*SOMERSET, Lord Fitzroy (1788 - 1855) (later created Baron Raglan)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Wife: Lady Emily Somerset

Lord Wellington’s Military Secretary, a Guardsman, much-liked. His wife is one of the Duke of Wellington’s nieces.

*SOULT, Nicolas Jean de Dieu (1769-1851)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AKA: Duke of Damnation (by the British)

French Marshal, also the Duke of Dalmatia, in command of the Army of the South in the Peninsula in 1812. Harassed by the ‘incalculable’ movements of the Ballasteros in southern Spain. He is got rid of by King Joseph in February.

*SOUZA, Manuel TerÁeira Caetano Pinto de Silvcia y

THE SPANISH BRIDE

‘The 3rd Cacadores at this period were commanded by a fine gallant soldier and a good fellow, but as he rejoiced in a name of unusual length Ö we gave him the much shorter appellation of ‘Jack Nasty Face,’ for he was an ugly dog, though a very good officer.’ (From Autobiography of Harry Smith).

*SPENCER, Lord Charles (Lieutenant)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Uncle: Sir William Stewart

An improvident young man, acting as his uncle’s ADC; wounded at Nive, 1813.

*STEWART, Captain the Hon. James

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Friend of Harry Smith’s, they hunt together. Like Harry he keeps a pack of greyhounds and asks Harry to act as his whipper-in.

*STEWART, Sir William(1774-1827)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A nice old gentleman, ‘Quite incapable of obeying an order’ who prevails upon the 5th and 7th Division to follow a different course on the retreat from Madrid and thus find their way blocked by the Spanish, Army of Galicia. His ADC is his nephew, Lord Charles Spencer. Sir William has the reputation for being the bravest man in the army.

*STOKES

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of the rank and file that George Simmons finds dead after Badajos (1812), along with Crampton, Balvaird and McDermid.

*STONE, Frederick

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Juana Smith’s English tutor following Miss Price. An elderly gentleman with a sense of humour.

*SUCHET (1770-1826)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French commander, served in Spain 1808-14. Much harried, he loses touch with King Joseph early in 1813, but he was an able and shrewd administrator, one of Napoleon's most trusted Marshals.

*SURTEES, William

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Quartermaster of the 95th in the Peninsula and later writer of a book of memoirs.

*THOMIÈRES

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commands a Division in Marmont’s Army of Portugal.

*TINY

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Harry Smith’s horse which Juana insists on riding and caracoling for the troops.

*TORRENS, Henry, Major General Sir (1779-1828)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

From the Horse Guards, the Duke of York’s Military Secretary. Helped remove much of the animosity between the Duke of York and Wellington by assisting Wellington before Waterloo to the limit of his authority.

*TURK, the

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A sutler, the most famous sutler, who could acquire just about anything to sell.

*UNCLE JUAN

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of the relatives Juana Smith ruthlessly kills in her stories to wheedle rations out of a warm-hearted hostess, Uncle Juan died of starvation.

*UNCLE TOMAS

THE SPANISH BRIDE

One of the relatives Juana Smith ruthlessly kills in her stories to wheedle rations out of a warm-hearted hostess, Uncle Tomas was ‘shot’ by the French.

*UNIACKE, Captain (d.1812)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Friend of Harry Smith’s, of the 95th, who predicted that the storming of Rodrigo would make Harry a Captain.

*UPTON, The Hon Arthur

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A Guards officer, who picks his way to Harry Smith on a blood horse drawling for a guide and then delicately goes away again.

*UXBRIDGE, The Earl of, (Henry Paget) (1768-1854)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Cavalry commander at Waterloo, previously the cavalry commander for Sir John Moore. His elopement with Lady Charlotte Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington’s sister-in-law, in 1809 rather stalled his military career until Waterloo in 1815.

*VANDELEUR, Brigadier General Sir John (1763-1849)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Commanded the second brigade of the Light Division at Cuidad Rodrigo (1812), where he was badly wounded. Rejoins the brigade to find that Harry Smith has a acquired a wife.

*VICAR OF VICALBARO

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Don Pedro.

*VILLATTE

THE SPANISH BRIDE

French commander defending Toulouse - a battle fought after Napoleon’s abdication.

*VITTY

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Juana Smith’s dog given to her by an unnamed Spanish lady whose lover dies in the barn at Vittoria.

*VIVIAN, General (Richard) Sir Hussey (b.1775)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Lt.-Colonel of the 7th Light Dragoons (later 7th Hussars). At Waterloo he led the 18th Hussars against the French.

*WADE, Colonel

THE SPANISH BRIDE

‘An eccentric gentleman’ who loses his battalion during a night march after Vittoria.

*WAINRIGHT, Captain

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Captain of the Tonnant who comes back from America with Harry Smith on the Iphigenia with dispatches for the admiralty.

*WALES, Princess of, Caroline of Brunswick (1768-1821)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Husband: The Prince Regent

Daughter: Princess Charlotte.

*WALKER, General

THE SPANISH BRIDE

At the siege of Badajos (1812) his brigade make the French abandon the breaches by winning the bastion of San Vincente.

*WELLINGTON, First Duke of (Arthur Wellesley) (1769-1852)

THE SPANISH BRIDE

AKA: Old Hookey, The Beau, Beau Douro, The Peer.

At the start of this book, the siege of Badajos (1812), Wellington is Viscount Wellington of Talavera, but he is made an Earl following his successes there and at Cuidad Rodrigo (1812). A Marquisate follows his victory at Salamanca in 1812 as well as other Portuguese and Spanish honours and he was created a Duke in 1814. He is made Field Marshal after Vittoria. Kincaid said his army would rather see his long nose among them in a battle than a reinforcement of 10,000 men.

*WEST

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Harry Smith’s groom, a stolidly respectable person.

*WHITELOCKE, General

THE SPANISH BRIDE

Led the 1806 ‘ill-fated expedition to Buenos Aires’, on which Harry Smith served.

*WOODVILLE

THE SPANISH BRIDE

A cigar manufacturer in Havana who boasts 41 children ‘of a variety of shades of colour and not one above 13 years of age.’

*YOUNG VARMINT

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: Havelock, William

PAGET, Henry

THE SPANISH BRIDE

SEE: UXBRIDGE, Lord