Show peatie benth of clr jolin moore in 1 1749 49 I 1 an and 1 again in 1803 1805 the bay was the all scene of a naval victory of tho the english over th alie french eFrench cut but tile the name COr coranna conlinn lInn a marks an engagement ono one of tile most celebrated in british military annals in which ono one fell whose name in suggests alie ideal soldier Bol dier there thereon on that low gray line which marks the water 1 batteries a tt er i e s not n more rn 0 r e 10 than 11 1 I y gun shot distant t a n t the t h e bravo li tot 0 sir S i r john b n bloore met ills death tho the action in which moore I 1 re full fell was as ilic final one in vat tat t at penin peninsula uki campaign retreating 11 toward the alie sea lie hal had ha l baan hotly pursued by soult but by superhuman efforts he had preserved tho the remnant of his army attempting to embark at corunna coranna Cor unna moore was as attacked with great force by the van of ts column which had rapidly closed on him dut against british steel in the hands of men rendered desperate by their position it was impossible for tile tho exhausted pursuers to make any headway much less drive moore into the sc sea a n french aneli geurs eurs and light infantry y were wera hurled back over those bills and the sturdy soult could but content himself by bringing his hia artillery into ri action and from this fire the city was wll w 11 nigh destroyed in one of tile last movements of the tha embarkation when the tha success of the operation was evident moore was struck by the fragment of a shell while standing near the water edge and expired almo st immediately his death deat it to every sol bollier sollier iier cannot but be an enviable one ills his tidy was hastily inter interred reI on the ramparts brit bit on 01 the capture of the c I 1 ij three days later soult had the remains interred in the citadel with honors of war A monument erected in the jardin do de san carlos carios by the british Britis lf government commemorates ids his bravery and intrepidity the spaniards reverence the die name as if it were nvere one of their own g tri evis and keep tho the walks and shrubbery in condition the tha scenery from the jardin looking up the bay lias his a peculiar ruggedness which reminds one of spots in our own sierras in california Cali forma conina corunna cor san francisco chronicle |