BIB_ID
418712
Accession number
MA 9938
Creator
Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857.
Display Date
London, England, 1813 July 3.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 31.8 x 19.9 cm
Notes
Croker gives the place of writing as the Admiralty office, located in London.
Addressed to "Captn Sir George Collier / Surveillante / Santander."
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 IX, page 150.
Addressed to "Captn Sir George Collier / Surveillante / Santander."
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 IX, page 150.
Summary
Directing Collier to take a schooner under his command; adding that the commander of the schooner has been told to follow Collier's orders and to inform "Lieutenant General the Marquis of Wellington [Arthur Wellesley] that this vessel and two others which will be sent out, are to be appropriated for the conveyance of Dispatches between Santander or any other convenient Port or Falmouth or Plymouth."
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