Monumento funerario dedicado a la memoria de un oficial inglés

Carta en la que se transcribe el texto de la inscripción situada en un monumento funerario dedicado a la memoria de un oficial inglés que murió en la Guerra contra Napoleón y que se encuentra a pocos kilometros del pueblo de Villafranca del Penedés. 22/7/1830

Real Academia de la Historia

Signatura: CAIT/9/3930/09(2)

Gracias a Rafael Pardo sabemos más acerca del oficial fallecido:

Inscription on a Monument erected against the Church of Villa Franca, in Catalonia, by the Officers of the 20th Light Dragoons, to the memory of CaptainHanson, in totem of their heartfelt regret.—" Let those journeying hither behold this stone—the me* morial alike of tenderness and of military glbry—erected by permission of the Most Reverend the Bishop of Barcelona. On the 13th September, 1813, Captain William Hanson, of His Britannic Majesty'! twentieth regiment of Light Dragoons, fell in a severe action with the Enemy's Cavalry on the fields of Monjos, contiguous to this Town, whilst gloriously fighting under the command of Colonel Lord Frederick Bentinck for the combined cause of . Great Britain and Spain. That this distinguished Officer, therefore, may live,her yond the grave, the Officers of his own Regiment, deeply lamenting his loss, have caused this inscription to be dedicated .to his respected name."