Writer specialising in the British Army during the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars. Editor at Helion & Co. Bakes a great scone. He/him.
Rob Griffith
An old blog about Christmas in the Peninsula.
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A cheese update: it went off in the heat of the Spanish summer and what remained had to be sold at auction as it wouldn’t have survived the journey inland to the Spanish troops.
Papers relating to the repatriation of Spanish POWs in July 1808. Along with the muskets, swords, accoutrements & cartridges going with them to Corunna were ‘hats of cheese’ weighing 120,000lb. I assume a hat was like a wheel but taller than wide. Anyone come across the term before? #cheese #history
I should probably clarify that it was 120,000lb of cheese in total. Not per hat. That’s still a lot of cheese.
Back at The National Archives for the fist time in a while. Will be looking at Sir John Moore’s papers amongst others.
