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George ScovellGeorge Scovell was a member of the quartermaster's staff of the British Army in Iberia during the Peninsular War. He is most remembered for the crucial role he played in breaking the codes of the French forces during that war. The cyphers he was confronted with started off relatively easy, but by 1813 and 1814, Scovell was breaking the toughest codes of the age. The intelligence provided by Scovell was vital to the prosecution of the war by Wellington in the same way that Bletchley Park's cracking of the Enigma code 130 years later would prove to be vital during World War II. It gave insight into enemy plans and dispositions and forewarning of strikes. Scovell retired from the British Army as a major general and died during the 1850s. Scovell, George
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