Manuscript letter dated ‘No. 17, Serra de Moita, 21st March 1811’, from Captain Percival to his Aunt, Mrs Charles Drummond. 4 pages. 

In this letter Percival has little to report; that his regiment has marched for days and halted because they have outrun their provisions. He also mentions how unpleasant it is to see the bodies of Portuguese civilians executed by the French merely for fleeing from them. 

From a collection of  twenty-three letters of 29 Sep 1810- 11 Jun 1814, written by Lt and Capt George Harvey Percival, Coldstream Guards, to his aunt Mrs Charles Drummond in London from the Peninsula, 1810-1811 and the Low Countries, 1813-1814.