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EN ROUTE IN POLAND - EX GERMAN OFFICER OF WESTPHALIAN GUARDS IN WARTA VIA "KALISCH FELDPOST"; Fine April 1812 EL (buff paper; fully typed transcript & translation into English) from "Warta" (Poland) to Zellerfeld (Saxony) endorsed "Zu Kallisch zur Feldpost" and "Lettre militaire" on the front and having a fair handstruck "Preusse p.m." nearby (Prusse par Magdeburg), with sundry ms rates. The writer, "Ferdinand [von den Brincken]" had been the page to the King of Westphalia, Jerome Bonaparte, but was at this time a Lieutenant of the Westphalian Cavalry Guard. He managed to return from Russia in 1813 with only a frostbitten right hand an a slight wound. He writes to his father that he is billetted in a cobbler's shop and says that "The Emperor [Napoleon Bonaparte] is expected here...". Rare and significant letter. Cross Reference: GERMAN STATES, POLAND
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