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Auction: 14035 - Postal History, Autographs and Historical Documents
Lot: 3045

Historical Documents
The Peninsular Wars - Battle of Salamanca
1812 hand-drawn map of the allied and French forces showing the areas of high ground and includes "Two hills called the two Arapiles. The one to the North formed the centre of the British Position - that to the South was the centre of the French Position" with and extensive and detailed key to the map.

Also 1812 (2 June) letter from William Mordaunt in Lisbon to Sir Charles Stuart asking for help after he was imprisoned as a French spy and a later letter to Sir Charles Stuart.

Other items include a long letter written in Portuguese written on 24 December 1812 which makes mention of Lord Wellington and Marshal Beresford (serving in the Portuguese army). An official letter in Portuguese from the secretariat of the junta. A letter in French referring to Marquis de Wellington. A very interesting group. Photo

The Battle of Salamanca saw the Anglo-Portuguese army under the Duke of Wellington defeat Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces among the hills around Arapiles, south of Salamanca, Spain on 22 July 1812.

Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779 – 1845).
A British diplomat, between 1812 and 1828 he was known as Sir Charles Stuart. He served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal and Brazil between 1810 and 1814.

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