letter, letter
Accession Number
NAM.2003-12-9-41
Description
Manuscript letter, partly mutilated, by Duncan Drummond from Campania, Portugal, to his father, 28 May 1811. Letter describes the Battle of Albuera on the 26th May 1811. Part of a volume of documents relating to the careers of John Young, gunner, Royal Navy, and Sgt Duncan Drummond, 66th Regiment of Foot, 1795 (c)-1826 (c). From a leather bound volume of original manuscript material containing some modern genealogical notes by Mrs M Powell, 2003. Associated with Battle of Oporto (1809) and Battle of Albuera (1811), Peninsular War (1808-1814).
Events
Albuera, Battle of, 1811 (Peninsular War 1808-1814)
Associated collection