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Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore (1761-1809) was a British Army general also known as Moore of Corunna. He is best known for his military training reforms and for his death at the Battle of Corunna, in which he repulsed a French army under Marshal Soult during the Peninsular War. Moore was buried wrapped in a military cloak in the ramparts of the town. Moore's funeral was commemorated in the poem 'The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna' by the Irish poet Charles Wolfe.

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