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Captain Baynes! and Pascoe? and slept in a miserable billet. Next 
morning by Castel Novo to Salgueiro. At Sabugal had intelligence of 
a troop of banditti formed by Portuguese deserters of all descriptions ; 
their plan is murder and robbery which they practise in the mountains 
about Meimoa; they had infamously murdered two woman the night 
before by stoning them to death. 
21st November.—On duty, a day worthy of no remark, except that 
owing to some differences whilst I was away, Captain M. and the Doctor 
had seceeded from the mess. 
22nd November.—A. commissary this day joined us for the supply of 
the troop. 
23rd November.—Poor Frank Chambers still very ill, and I am under 
the necessity of taking Taylor into my stable. 
24th November.—Nothing out of the common way to-day. Blachley * 
dined with us from Pero Vizeu. 
1 Captain Henry Baynes (Kane's List, No. 1092) was at the battle of Talavera (wounded). He 
was brigade-major, R.A., in the Waterloo campaign (wounded), and was made a K.H. Major 
Baynes died 15th July, 1844. 
2 Lieutenant John Pascoe (Kane’s List, No. 1415) served in the Peninsula and France from 
August 1809 to February 1814. He was present at the battles of Salamanca, Vitoria, Nivelle, 
Nive, passage of the Bidassoa, and other operations, sieges of Badajos, Fort of Salamanca, Burgos, 
and St. Sebastian. Lieutenant-Colonel Pascoe died 23rd January, 1861. 
3 Lieutenant Henry Blachley (Kane’s List, No. 1221), ‘1’? Troop, R.H.A., served in the 
Peninsula from July 1809, to the end of the war in 1814, he was present at the siege and capture 
of Badajos, affair of Castrajon, battle of Salamanca, capture of Madrid, siege of Burgos and retreat 
from thence, affair of Osma, siege of St. Sebastian (both operations), passage of the Nivelle, actions 
9th, 10th, 11th and 12th December, 1813, in front of Bayonne, passage of the Adosur, investment 
of Bayonne, and repulse of the sortie, on which occasion he was wounded in the head by a musket 
ball, the last artillery officer wounded in the war. He received the silver medal and five clasps. 
Major-General H. Blachley died 13th August, 1868. 
(To be continued). 
