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Thomas Morris Papers
Contains the following types of materials: diary, correspondence.
The Recollections of Sergeant Morris
Thomas Morris was a cockney lad of 17 when he enlisted in the 2nd Battalion of the 73rd Regiment in 1813 which was about to sail for Swedish Pomerania. Morris describes here the actions of the ensuing campaign, the fortifications of Stralsund, the victory of Gohrde, and engagements with the French in the Netherlands. During Napoleon's first abdication the 73rd were quartered in Belgium, after his return from Elba, and fought at Waterloo. Morris gives an account of the fighting of British Infantry Squares there, in which he himself took part. Promoted to NCO he formed part of the British occupation army in Paris. His story is full of anecdotes about his fellow soldiers, his officers and the circumstances in which he found himself.
Sergeant Morris of the 73rd Foot
Most British military memoirs of the Napoleonic period focus on the actions of Wellington's army as it fought through the Iberian peninsula during the bloody struggle to expel the French from Portugal and Spain. Morris's important memoir is somewhat different. He elected to join his elder brother in the second battalion of the 73rd regiment of foot and found himself on board ship bound for Sweden. Battles against the French, in close co-operation with the Northern European Allies, followed as he marched with his regiment through Germany, taking part in the actions which led to the Emperor's great reverse at Leipzig. As the First Empire recoiled in its final days before the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, Morris took part in the last actions as the French Army was pushed from the Low Countries, after which they remained there in garrison. So it was that the 73rd was literally 'on the spot' when Napoleon slipped away from his exile on Elba and began his fateful march towards the apocalyptic battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo in 1815.
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