[WATERLOO]. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED “J WALLACE” TO THE D...

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[WATERLOO]. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED “J WALLACE” TO THE DEAN OF WINDSOR. [Waterloo]. Autograph letter signed 'J Wallace' to the Dean of Windsor, 3pp., 4to., with integral address panel, trace of mounting at inner margin, 1/2 past 7 o'clock, n.p., n.d. [but 22 June 1815], giving an account of 'the intelligence from London of the splendid victory obtained by the allies'. News of the victory was carried to London from Brussels by Major Henry Percy, younger son of the Duke of Northumberland and aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington, who delivered the dispatch to Lord Bathurst, Secretary for War on the evening of Wednesday 21 June. 'My Dear Dean, I am sure you will forgive my disturbing you to communicate the intelligence just brought me by a messenger from London of the splendid victory obtained by the allies¦The French army totally annihilated - where Bpte is not known¦Lord Uxbridge has lost a leg & Lord Fitzroy Somerset an arm'. Possibly written by General Sir John Wallace who had fought in the Peninsular War. The Dean of Windsor at the time was Edward Legge, son of the Earl of Dartmouth and later Bishop of Oxford *Condition: Slight folds, pencil notes and very occasional spotting.