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Letter from Edward O’Grady to his brother the 1st Viscount Guillamore, 6 July 1815
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Accession Number

NAM.1990-08-140-30

Description

Letter from Edward O’Grady to his brother the 1st Viscount Guillamore, dated Dublin 6 Jul 1815. The correspondent Edward (Smyth?) O’Grady writes to his brother the 1st Viscount Guillamore to say that he had been told Standish O’Grady of the 7th Hussars had been killed at Warerloo, and it was only uppon checking his own copy of the Gazette that he discovered this was untrue. He congratulates the Viscount of the survival of his son. 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).

Events

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

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