Manuscript letter from Lieutenant William Cowper Coles, 40th (2nd Somerset) Regiment of Foot. It is dated Montevideo, 14th April 1807, and sent to his father, Charles Coles, in Hampshire.  Contains some bi-directional writing in part. From a collection of letters written by Lt W C Coles to his family, 1806-1817.
Associated with the Capture of Buenos Aires, Napoleonic Wars, South America (1804-1807), 1806.