Ninety-six orders, Memoranda and other papers relating to the British and Allied Armies in the Peninsular, September 1811 to January 1814.
Most of the orders (chiefly drafts) relate to movements of British and Portugese troops, although they do include a few battle orders, road reports and lists of cantonments. They were mostly issued by Sir George Murray, Col James Willoughby Gordon and Sir William De Lancey, and addressed to Sir Stapleton Cotton, Lt Gen Graham, Baron Bock and Maj Gen Anson. Also eight documents in French and Spanish dating from 1813.
Associated with the Peninsular War (1808-1814).
A detailed catalogue of the collection is available.