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A Group from the Friends visited Winchester in April 2023 to visit some of the museums located in the area. One of the group, Andy Grainger wrote this excellent report on the weekend. Thanks to Andy G.  
The next talk for the Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras will be on Tuesday 23 May 2023 at 7pm UK time. Historian Bob Burnham willbe talking about British Officers in the Portuguese army during the Peninsular War. Please register your interest with [email protected]  Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras - Our next talk will be by Dr Mark S. Thompson on Tuesday 21 March 2023 at 7pm UK time. The subject will be: The Lines of Torres Vedras - Myth & Reality. Register your interest by emailing Ian Brewer at: EMAIL If anyone was planning on going to the reception in London on 28 March 2023, for the Friends of the British Cemetery in Elvas, it has had to be cancelled due the expected rail strike.
For all runners out there, details are now available for the 2023 Running Challenge. Please follow the LINK  For those interested in more information on the life and paintings of Thomas Staunton St Clair as described in the recent talk by Major-General (retd) Rui Moura, there are several links below.
Moura, Rui. Thomas Staunton St. Clair: the Sword, the Pen and the Paintbrush. Revista De Estudos Anglo-Portugueses / Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies. no. 30, 2021, pp. 41-92. https://www.academia.edu/64087129/Thomas_Staunton_St_Clair_the_Sword_the_Pen_and_the_Paintbrush Feibel, Robert. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 48, No. 193 (SPRING 1970), pp. 29-34 https://www.jstor.org/stable/44229227 Thomas St. Clair. A Soldier’s Recollections of the West Indies and America: With a Narrative of the Expedition to the Island of Walcheren. London: R. Bentley, 2 vols., 1834 Vol 1 - https://books.google.pt/books?id=4CQCAAAAYAAJ Vol 2 - https://books.google.pt/books?id=xSQCAAAAYAAJ Thomas St. Clair. Sketches in Spain, Portugal and France, During the War Taken by Lieut. Col. Thos. Staunton St. Clair, From 1810 to 1813. [1810-1813]. [Watercolour Album, 9 plates]. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15234653 Thomas St. Clair. Twelve Views of the Principal Occurrences of the Campaigns of 1810 and 1811 in Spain and Portugal. Engraved by Charles Turner. London, 1812-1815. [Aquatint with etching and engraving; printed on paper; hand coloured; edged with paper, 12 plates]. London, Royal Collection, Collection of Military and Naval Maps and Prints formed by George III (1738-1820) https://militarymaps.rct.uk/napoleonic-wars-1803-15/spain-twelve-views-of-the-principal-occurences-of-the Gibraltar paintings (Thomas Staunton St. Clair) https://gibraltar-intro.blogspot.com/2012/07/chapter-1826-thomas-staunton-st.html?m=1 NEXT FLTV TALK - Change of plans for our next event on 24 January 2023. John Peaty is unable to speak and Rui Moura has agreed to bring forward his talk on Thomas St Clair. St Clair was a British officer serving in the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War and an accomplished artist. Rui will give an insight into St Clair's campigns and the art that followed his travels. A revised programme will be issued in due course. Please register through Ian Brewer at [email protected] REVISED TALK PROGRAMME - Marcus Cribb has joined the lineup to talk about his forthcoming book. All the talks are online apart from November 2022 which is the Annual General Meeting and will be held in London. Detail of the talks are included below. Please register with [email protected] if you wish to attend any of the the talks The programme of online talks for 2022-23 has now been arranged. All the talks are online apart from November 2022 which is the Annual General Meeting and will be held in London. Detail of the talks are included below. Please register with Ian Brewer if you wish to attend any of the the talks  We are always looking for new members for the Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras. We are particularly interested in people who would be willing to join the committe and help run the group.
The annual fees are low and all funds are used to support & promote the Lines of Torres Vedras., If you are interested in joining, please follow this link |
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