2-693-459 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Northumberland Fusiliers. Storming the ramparts of San Vincente', 1812, (1939). British forces climbing the fortress of San Vincente in Spain during the Battle of Badajoz, 6 April 1812. A bloody episode in the Peninsular Wars - the British and Portuguese forced the surrender of the French garrison. From Battles for the Flag, a set of cards given away with British boys' comic The Wizard. [D. C. Thomson & Co., Dundee, 1939]