List of Plates

1. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Richard Fletcher RE. Portrait in possession of Royal Engineers Mess and used with their permission.

2. Monument at Alhandra to Sir Richard Fletcher and Neves Costa.

3. Major General John Thomas Jones RE. Bust from the Royal Engineers Museum, Chatham.

4. Lieutenant General Sir Stephen Chapman RE. Portrait in possession of Ronald Brighouse and used with his permission.

5. Field Marshal John Fox Burgoyne RE.

6. Contemporary image of Oporto from Villa Nova by Vivian.

7. Boat bridge across the Douro at Oporto by Landmann.

8. Flying bridge over the Tagus at Villa Velha.

9. Main entrance to Fort La Lippe, Elvas, Portugal.

10. Fort St Lucia, Elvas, Portugal.

11. Fort St Julian, defending the embarkation point that the British army would have used to evacuate Lisbon.

12. Section of the ditch of Fort San Vincente at Torres Vedras.

13. Gun emplacement at Fort 18, Ajuda.

14. Restored military road leading to the great redoubt at Sobral.

15. Drawing of a Portuguese single-arm telegraph, reproduced with the permission of the Municipality of Torres Vedras.

16. Reconstruction of a Portuguese single-arm telegraph.

17. Reconstruction of a British balloon telegraph.

18. Captain Charles Boothby RE, who lost a leg at Talavera.

19. Badajoz castle from Fort San Christobal.

20. The Tagus from the fort at Jerumenha.

21. The castle at Campo Mayor.

22. Defences at Almeida, Portugal.

23. Site of the main Allied breach in the wall at Ciudad Rodrigo.

24. Curtain wall of castle at Badajoz, Spain.

25. Major William Nicholas RE.

26. Bridge over the Guadiana at Badajoz seen from Fort San Christobal.

27. Bridge over the Guadiana at Merida.

28. Bridge over the Tagus at Almaraz.

29. Bridge over the Tormes at Salamanca

30. Bridge over the Tagus at Alcantara.

31. Siege of San Sebastian by Jenkins.

32. Passage of the Bidassoa by Jenkins.

33. Contemporary image of an ox cart and driver.

34. Fragment of memorial to Royal Engineer officers killed at the siege of San Sebastian.