Manuscript letter dated ‘No. 18, Falcallios (?), 8th April 1811’, from Captain Percival to his Aunt, Mrs Charles Drummond. 4 pages. 

In this letter Percival relates that they had arrived near the Spanish border and the he and his comrade Barrow had crossed into Spain. He states that there is now not a Frenchman left in Portugal. He describes an action against the French, claiming the enemy had suffered 3,000 casualties. 

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.