The War Stores Sold (1815)
- Item sets
- Military
- Name
- The War Stores Sold (1815)
- Description
- After Waterloo, the war stores of the island were sold by auction. Among the material at Peel were two eighteen-pounders and fifty rounds of shot. The island's defences, such as they were, were being sold off as surplus. The men who had fought at Quatre-Bras and Trafalgar came home to a country that was disposing of its own protection.
- Active Period
- 1815
- Place
- Peel
- Period
- Crown Administration
- Type
- Military Decline
- Source
- Manuscript research
- Book Chapter
- Chapter 15 — And Still They Served