I must have missed Linda's original request, but David's reply hit a chord with me If you go to these two pages on our website there are two letters written by officers in Wellington's army in the Peninsular General Foord Bowes and his brother-in-law Capt Stephen Johnson, and we have links to other sites dealing with Napoleon's wars at Waterloo and in the Iberian peninsular - including a link to a book which lists the names of the various serving soldiers. http://members.xoom.com/leisurewrite/bowes1.html http://members.xoom.com/leisurewrite/bowes2.html Cheers Eunice and Ron in Australia At 23:21 22/02/01 +0800, David Armstrong wrote: >G'day Linda, >I can't lay my hands on the references at the moment, however the Peninisula >War and the Waterloo Campaign were two entirely separate events, although >both were part of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars against Bonaparte. > >I believe that very few of Wellington's troops from the Peninsula War (1808 >to 1814) were with him in the Waterloo Campaign. Wellington commanded >British, Portuguese and Spanish troops in the Peninsula. This part of the >wars finished with the Battle of Toulouse in south western France, 1814. >Many of his veterans were then dispersed, some to North America for the War >of 1812 which was still going on. > >Only a part Wellington's troops at Waterloo were British, and few of them >his Peninsula Veterans. The rest were Dutch, Belgians, Germans etc. > >At the time, one should also consider the King's German Legion. This was an >Army within an Army in that they were troops recruited by George III of >England in his capacity as King of Hanover. Also the 60th Regiment, Royal >Americans had a strong German element. > >Cheers >David, >Perth, Western Australia >