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Samuel Ford Whittingham

He took part in the disastrous attack on Buenos Ayres and in the capitulation on 6 July, and sailed for England on 30 July.

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He reported constantly throughout these campaigns to the British minister in Spain, John Hookham Frere, as to the state and operations of the Spanish army.

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Whittingham served in command of a force of Spanish cavalry and infantry under La Peña at the battle of Barrosa, on 5 March 1811, and kept in check a French corps of cavalry and infantry which attempted to turn the Barossa heights by the seaward side.

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