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Army:Great Britain: Money Expended by Engineers during Siege of Burgos,
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| Candles for the mines, tracing lines, cloth for saucissons, saws, chissels, and gimblets, etc. for the carpenters | 37 Pounds 9 Shillings |
| Large gabions paid at 1 shilling each; smaller gabions paid at 8 pence each; fascines paid at 6 pence each. | 226 Pounds |
| Pay of officers acting as engineers, at 10 shillings per day each. | 152 Pounds 10 Shillings |
| Working pay of royal military artificers. | 15 Pounds 10 Shillings |
| Working pay of miners from the line. | 131 Pounds 15 Shillings |
| Paid for task work, in driving galleries, in addition to the regular dialy pay of the miners | 152 Pounds 15 Shillings 6 Pence |
| Woolpacks taken from a Spanish store in the town, to aid in carrying forward the trenches were paid for | 2025 Pounds |
| Total Expense | 2883 Pounds 10 Shillings 2 Pence |
1 British Pound = 20 Shillings
1 British Shilling = 12 Pence
SOURCE:
Jones, John T. Journal of Sieges Carried on by the Army under the Duke of Wellington in Spain between the Years 1811 and 1814 Vol. I London : T. Egerton; 1827. P. 363
Placed on the Napoleon Series: June 2001
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