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** CAMBRAI - GERMAN MERCHANT SEAMAN's APPEAL FOR EXCHANGE SENT TO "MINISTRE DE LA GUERRE"; Very fine 28 May 1810 EL (sealed with wax) from POW "Wholer Esers...pas Anglois mais du Duche D'Holstein" (captured on an English merchant vessel returning from Portugal) in the "Depot des Prisonniers Anglais a la Citadelle de cette ville" prepaid ("4[?]" on flap) to "General d'Hunebourg de Division Ministre de la Guerre...Paris" with mainly fine "P.57.P/CAMBRAY" on the front beside black Paris boxed "P.P" (30 Mar. cds on back). The letter is a plea for clemency from a German citizen who claims not to have been on any British Naval vessel. Rare thus. [With 2020 Roumet Certificate of Genuineness.]Cross Reference: MILITARY - P.O.W. MAIL, FRANCE, GERMAN STATES
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