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The dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington during his various campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France Volume 10 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...buy two of your horses for £400; and I believe that Wood is to send me the hounds, as he thought head quarters rather deficient in that respect, as we had not harriers this winter (since Marsden carried off your old pack), as well as fox hounds. ' I am besides indebted to you for a mare, which you left with mc last year, and which 1 have been keeping up for you, and she is now in excellent condition. Wood says you intended to give her to me; but I say that all officers of dragoons arc horse dealers, and that I cannot take her from you. ' You may tell your friends in Germany, if you should receive this letter there, that I propose to take the field in a few days, and that I only hope that I may be as successful as they have been. At all events, I hope to prevent the enemy from detaching any thing from hence against them. ' Believe me, &c. ' Major General ' Wellington. the Hon. Sir C. Steivart, K.B. ' I have appointed le petit fils du Roi George to be a Deputy Assistant Adjutant General.' To the Marquis of Buckingham. ' My DEAR Lord, ' Freneda, 25th April, 1813. ' I have received your letter of the 10th March, and I assure you that I am highly flattered by your recollection of me at such a moment as that at which you wrote to me, and at the expression of your wish that the friendly and affectionate intercourse with which I had so long been honored by your much respected father should be continued with yourself. I assure you that, from regard for yourself and respect for your whole family, as well as from affection for the memory of your father, I am most desirous that the loss which I have sustained in him should not be aggravated by the discontinuance of my intimate intercourse with yourself and family; and I accept, with the utmost satisfaction, th...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236058801
- ISBN 13 9781236058805
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages220
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