To sack it, to dishonor it, there were ready encamped on its outskirts eight thousand chosen troops, who had fought under Wellington in the peninsular war; veterans in service, and the flower of the British army.
"Eight days in New Orleans in February, 1847"
Albert James Pickett
After crossing the Atlantic to England, the most direct route is by the peninsular and Oriental Steamship Line, by way of Marseilles.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
A Story of the peninsular War.
"Fairies and Folk of Ireland"
William Henry Frost