Napoleon Series Archive 2008

A British debt *LINK*

Hi
A very curious news published today (december, 8th) in the Diario de Astorga Leon

The British army, ally of Spain against the invading Napoleonic troops, still maintains a pending debt of 511,677 real ones with the Spanish city of Astorga from the beginning of the War of Independence (1808-1812). The debt derives from the first campaign in which the British remained in Astorga (in the province of Leon, the northwest of Spain), during December of 1808, and they left - pursuid by Napoléon- without paying provisions by a value that at present would suppose about 600,000 Euros (776,000 USD or 523,000 GBP).

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Rafa

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A British debt *LINK*