The Regimental Museum, Bodmin, 2014

The conservation and display of Sir John Moore’s Order of the Knights of Bath Mantle

Lt. General Sir John Moore died in the Battle of Corunna during the Peninsular War in 1809, repulsing an attack by Napoleon’s Marshall Soult and protecting the British Retreat.  He was acclaimed in death as a hero at home.

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