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 Welcome
to another year of battlefield tours and another 200th
anniversary tour to the Peninsula, this time to Portugal.
We have no anniversary as far as Napoleon's great
campaigns in central Europe, but we will be off to Italy
to study his early campaigns. In the meantime, this fellow
on the left will feature in this year's tours. General Max
Foy was one of Napoleon's most enduring generals, serving
in the Peninsula and sustaining 14 wounds, the last
coming at Orthes in 1814. He was wounded again at Waterloo
in 1815. We'll find him in Portugal, at Vimeiro and at
Busaco, where we will attend the 200th anniversary in September.
He always gets a good press as Ian Fletcher's mother's
maiden name was Foy, and as the general visited London
he's been 'adopted' as a very distant relative!
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