Thanks Tom, Again, some useful insights. Not least of which the reference to Portuguese camp followers in BANHA, Tenente Teotónio, A legião Portuguesa ao serviço de Napoleão,Ed. Caleidoscópio, Casal de Cambra,2007. Interestingly, the same publishers of ESDAILE, Charles J., “Bullets, Baggages and Ballads: Forgotten Sources for the Experience of British Women in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793- 1815”, in Da Guerra Peninsular: Retratos e Representações, Casal de Cambra, Caleidoscópio, 2010. Best A