BIB_ID
417846
Accession number
MA 9887
Creator
Wellesley, Henry, Baron Cowley, 1773-1847.
Display Date
Cádiz, Spain, 1813 September 16.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 30.2 x 20 cm
Notes
The signature appears to be Wellesley's, whereas the body of the letter appears to be written in a secretary's hand.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume IV, page 137.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume IV, page 137.
Summary
Forwarding "the Regency Gazette containing the Reports received by the Spanish Government from Field Marshal the Marquis of Wellington of the Assault & Capture of the Town of St. Sebastian on the 31st [...] and of the Defeat on the same day of the French Army under Marshal Soult in a desperate Attack made upon the Spanish Army under the Command of Genl. Freire and upon other parts of the Position of the Allied Army in the Pyrenees;" adding in a postscript that another gazette containing an account of the surrender of the Castle of San Sebastian is also included (neither of these gazettes have remained with the letter).
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