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Battle of San Sebastian


Cranston Military Prints By Subject Military Art Napoelonic Wars Battle of San Sebastian

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Battle of San Sebastian. Our page of art prints and paintings depicting the Battle of San Sebastian during the Napoleonic Wars.

Assault on the Breach of San Sebastian by Mark Churms.


Assault on the Breach of San Sebastian by Mark Churms.
4 of 5 editions available.
£2.20 - £105.00

San Sebastian - Ensign Figure Study by Mark Churms. (P)


San Sebastian - Ensign Figure Study by Mark Churms. (P)
One edition.
£100.00




Text for the above items :

Assault on the Breach of San Sebastian by Mark Churms.

The Storming party, 750 volunteers, included 200 men of the Guards, one hundred each from the First and Coldstream Guards. They moved off at two in the morning on the 31st August 1813, and occupied a ruined convent where they remained till half past nine. Aware of the almost impossible task ahead of them, and subjected to a violent electric thunderstorm, the troops waited in a state of savage anticipation. Wild senseless laughter was said to have preceded the attack on the breach which could not be entered except in single file under heavy fire. The troops attacked in succession, but were struck down by hundreds. General Graham then ordered the artillery to fire over the heads of the assailants, clearing the ramparts. A shell ignited a quantity of powder, and under cover of the explosions, the storming party forced its way into the town. San Sebastian was savagely sacked and burned, and the good name of Wellingtons Army suffered as it had done at Badajoz. The civilians were raped, robbed and murdered in revenge for the heavy losses suffered by the troops. The Franco-Spanish governor retired the citadel (San Marcial) and on the 9th September, after a gallant resistance of over a week, surrendered the charge he had so faithfully defended. The casualties among the officers of the first Guards were one Officer, Ensign Burrard, First battalion (a son of Sir Henry Burrard who was responsible for the disastrous Treaty of Cintra) severely wounded, since dead, and one Officer, Ensign Orlando Bridgeman, wounded. In the Coldstream Guards, one officer ensign Thomas Chaplin, According to Lord Saltoun there were in round numbers, 150 casualties amongst 200 Guardsman. Total losses of volunteers from all regiments were 1500 men. (text by Atlanta Clifford, assistant to the Curator-The Guards Museum) In the painting. you see Ensign Chaplin lying wounded, attended by an Officer of the Coldstream Guards, Orlando Bridgeman is calling Assistant Surgeon Bacot, First Foot Guards, to go to the aid of his fellow officer, Burrard.


San Sebastian - Ensign Figure Study by Mark Churms. (P)

Study for the original painting Assault on the Breach of San Sebastian.

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