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March had taken out with him to the Peninsula 

 three clever chargers ; one of them — a chestnut 

 thorouofhbred — which carried him at Busaco, was 

 named after the battle. When Lord March retired 

 from active service at the close of the war, he 

 brought Busaco home with him. I have often 

 seen the horse, and he bore about him the marks 

 of many gunshot wounds. In addition, his head 

 and neck were scarred by heavy sabre-cuts, which 

 the noble animal probably diverted from his rider 

 by accidentally raising his head. Upon his return 

 to England Busaco was turned out for life in Hal- 

 naker Park, where he lived some years, until, be- 

 coming very old, he was killed, and buried in 

 the home park close to the ice-house, and a tree 

 was planted over his remains, which has now 

 grown into a noble specimen. Between the battles 

 of Busaco and Orthez, at the latter of which he 

 was severely wounded. Lord March suffered greatly 

 from ill health, being unable to stand the excessive 

 exertion and exposure to bad weather which his 

 staff duties necessitated. It is not generally 

 known that all throuo^h the Peninsular War the 

 English troops, including officers as well as pri- 

 vates, served without tents, sleeping out by night 

 in the open air. The French had, as usual, their 

 tentes d'abri. 



Under these circumstances Lord March was sent 

 down by Wellington, in October 1811, to Lisbon, 

 where he fell in with his first cousin, Charles James 



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