Tomb designed as a funerary monument, by English General Sir John Moore, who died at the Battle of Elviña in 1809 fighting while defending the city from General Soult's French Napoleonic troops.
This tomb is on the gardens of Sa Carlos, BIC in Spain, old castle years ago.
"British general, born in Glasgow on November 13, 1761 and died in La Coruña on January 16, 1809; In addition to various military actions in America and against Napoleon in Europe and Africa, he commanded the British expedition of 1808 in support of Spain during the War of Independence (1808-1814). The son of Scottish surgeon and writer John Moore, he studied middle school in Glasgow and made several trips to Europe with his father. He learned French to perfection, as well as Geography, Arithmetic and practical Geometry. He entered the army in 1776, at the age of fifteen. Brigade captain in 1778, the destinies entrusted to him took him to distant parts of the world, in Europe, Africa and America: the first of them was Nova Scotia (east of Canada), where he took part in the North American War of Independence (1776-1783). After that he was a member of Parliament (1784-1790), but returned to active military service in an expedition against Gibraltar and Corsica (1794) in which, in support of Paoli, he was in the actions of Bastia, Calvi, etc., of adjutant general in the West Indies (1796), and as governor of Saint Lucia (Caribbean Sea, May 1796), from where he had to return to England due to his health problems. After a hiatus, he fought as a commander against the Irish rebellion (1798), and against the French in Holland (1799) and Egypt (1801), where he excelled at the siege of Cairo. He was appointed sir in 1804. In the same context of anti-Napoleonic struggle he led the expedition to Sicily (1806) and the one that supported the Swedes (1808). Later the command of the English army in the Iberian Peninsula (33,000 men) was entrusted to him and was sent to Portugal; from Lisbon he advanced to meet with General Baird at Salamanca, sending Hope with the artillery through Talavera. He did not come to the aid of the port of Somosierra and Madrid was taken by the French; Until December 5, 1809, he could not count on the total of his forces and artillery, so Moore renounced his initial plan, replacing it with a march on Toro (Zamora) and Sahagún (León), where the French general Soult it seemed isolated. When Moore learned that Napoleon was trying to cut off the retreat, he ordered a general withdrawal, and even leaving Astorga, he withdrew on a difficult 400 km march to La Coruña with the intention of embarking. In it he lost almost a quarter of his forces, which were reduced to 25,000 men, but he gained an advantage of about four days over his pursuers to rest and receive weapons. He was finally overtaken by Soult on January 16, 1809, and combat was engaged in the forts of Elviña, near La Coruña. Although Moore was killed in the fighting, his army managed to escape, embarking at night. The Marquis of La Romana later wrote an epitaph in Spanish, and the famous Dr. Samuel Parr was commissioned to write one in Latin. The so-called Memoirs of John Moore were written by his brother. In Britain he was considered a national hero, contributed to by Charles Wolfe's poem The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna ('The Burial of Sir John Moore in La Coruña', 1817)."
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