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WELLINGTON (ARTHUR WELLESLEY 1ST DUKE, 1769-1852) LETTER IN SECRETARIAL HAND TO CHARLES STUART THE BRITISH ENVOY TO PORTUGAL. Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke. Letter signed ' Wellington', to Sir Charles Stuart, in a secretarial hand, 4pp., folio, Cartaxo, March 3rd 1811. Dispatch referring to the problems of supply lines to Wellington's army, 'It is impossible to punish soldiers, who are left to starve, for outrages committed in order to procure food¦This is the fifth day that they have been without bread¦'. Garwood. Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of wellington, 1838, vol VII, pp. 333-334 *Condition: With original light folds and punched with two holes to left margin.
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