95th RIFLES - Retreat from Corunna, 1809 Size:A3 Paul McCartney and John Lennon

Paul McCartney and John Lennon performing on stage at the  ABC Theatre in Huddersfield on 29th November 1963

the battalion withstood repeated waves of horsemen

In April 1815 the 3rd Battalion sailed to Ostend and were quartered in Brussels until the 16th of June when they were ordered to the strategic crossroads of Quatre Bras

and compassion — but peonies can also mean bashfulness

despite being attacked on three sides at once

95th RIFLES - Retreat from Corunna, 1809 Size:A3 Paul McCartney and John LennonThe Battle of Corunna took place on 16 January 1809, when a French corps under Marshal Jean de Dieu Soult attacked a British army under Lieutenant General Sir John Moore. The battle took place amidst the Peninsular War, which was a part of the wider Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon had defeated the Spanish armies and caused the British army to withdraw to the coast following an unsuccessful attempt by Moore to attack Soult's corps and divert the French army.