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Letter from Lieutenant Standish O’Grady to his father the 1st Viscount Guillamore, 17 January 1814
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Accession Number

NAM.1990-08-140-11

Description

Letter from Lt Col Standish O’Grady to his father the 1st Viscount Guillamore, dated Aspara 17 Jan 1814. In this letter O’Grady relates that his regiment is about three miles from the French army and has been involved in several close engagements which he describes as ‘hedge and ditch warfare’. He report several deaths and injuries among his regiment and friends,including injury to Peter Heyliger (later to distinguish himself at Quatre-Bras). He also mentions the death of Capt Gore of the 94th Regiment, killed in an altercation over a Spanish woman in Vitoria. Typed transcript in separate folder. From a collection of 45 letters associated with Lt Col Standish O’Grady, later 2nd Viscount Guillamore 1813-1830. These letters include those written whilst serving as a Lieutenant with the 7th Light Dragoons in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo, 1815-1830. With manuscript and typescript transcripts. Associated with the Peninsular War (1808-1814) and Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815).

Campaigns

Peninsular War (1808-1814)

Events

Quatre Bras, Battle of, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo 1815)

Associated collection