NAM.1968-07-451

Inventory description: Bound volume of ‘autograph’ letters, written between 1689 and 1857 collated for the signatures of the authors, including: Frederick Shomberg, 1st Duke of Shomberg (1689), Lt Gen Lumley, commanding the Cavalry in the Duke of Marlborough's Army (1706), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1712), Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1783), Prince Blucher (1805), the Duke of Wellington at Salamanca (1812), FM Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde from Balaklava and Lucknow (1854-1858), Lt Gen Sir Herbert Macpherson from Agra (1857), and Brig Gen John Nicholson from India (1857); associated with the Irish War (1689-1691), the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1713), the American War of Independence (1775-1783), the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), the Peninsular War (1808-1814), the Crimean War (1854-1856), and the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859), .