82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
[1] It embarked for the West Indies in June 1795 and was deployed to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic in August 1795.[22] The battalion left for home in June 1815 but, shortly after arriving in England, it embarked for Ostend from where it marched to Paris.[24] On the return journey from France, in January 1816, the brig Boadicea was wrecked in heavy storms off the east coast of Ireland while carrying 290 troops and 34 women and children from the regiment: 190 people died when the ship went down off Courtmacsherry.[27] It then sailed for Gibraltar in January 1837,[28] on to the West Indies in December 1839[28] and on to Canada in April 1843[29] before returning home in May 1848.[29] It then embarked for the Ionian Islands in January 1855;[30] it also saw action at the Siege of Sevastopol in summer 1855 during the Crimean War.
Puerta de Jerez, a
Tarifa
city gate from the Middle Ages