NAM.1968-07-419

Inventory description: A collection of manuscript letters written by Lt William Cowper Coles to his family, 1816-1817. They are written from Ireland, the Peninsular and France, which he was serving in the 40th (or 2nd Somerset) Regiment of Foot 1805-1809, the 4th (Queen’s Own) Dragoons 1809-1812 and the 12th or Prince of Wales’s Light Dragoons from 1812. Associated with the Peninsular War (1808-1814) and Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815).