2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Letterbook and partial diary recording the events of Duke Wellington’s Invasion of France, 1813-1814, recorded by a high placed officer, who not only copies important letters of Wellington’s and his fellow commanders, including Major Genl. Colville, General Graham, General Murray, and a letter from King Carlos of Spain, he also gives his own account of the events transpiring in this last phase of the defeat of Napoleon. The British expeditionary forces under Sir Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington), combined with Spanish and Portuguese resistance, succeeded in defeating the French at Vimeiro in 1808, Talavera in 1809, Salamanca in 1812, and Vittoria in 1813. The results were inconclusive, and the war was ended by Napoleon’s forced abdication in 1814. This manuscript letterbook is well over 200p. octavo, in red leather binding, with some events recorded in code, and records events and dates from March, 1813 to April 1814. Incredible content, including casualty reports, troop movements, and more. Highly important, certainly worthy of further research.
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