A CHIVALROUS FOE.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1399, 4 September 1923, Page 2

A CHIVALROUS FOE.

ERECTS STATUE TO HIS CONQUEROR. The unveiling at Shorncliffe Camp in Kent, of a statue to Sir John Moore is a reminder (writes “J.F.W.)” in the Glasgow Herald, that of the few memorials of Glasgow’s great soldier son one was erected by the chivalrous foe, who suffered defeat at Moore’s hands, Marshal Soult. Is there any other record in military history of a beaten general erecting a monument to the man who vanquished him? Moore lies buried in the garden of San Carlos overlooking his last stricken field at Coruna, where Spanish soldiers in the barracks nearby call “Alerta centinela!” and bare-legged fisher-girls prattle about their love affairs. It is to be feared that few Scotsmen include C> runa and a visit to Moore’s buriaiplace in their Continental holidays. Yet it is a pretty enough town, and the garden of San Carlos, on a peninsula jutting out to the sea, is a de lightful place, girt by grey walls and shaded by acacias. Coruna was the Groyne of the Elizabethans, and is a busy little place with a trade in cattle, cotton, cigars, glassware, and canned provisions. But this garden by the sea with the grave of the great Scottish soldier who, Napoleon said, “alone saved the English army from destruction,” gives the town a distinction above other places in Spain.