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Auction: 17020 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 978

Autographs
Crimean War
1854 (9 August) payment warrant letter from Varna to the Ordnance Paymaster in Varna requesting payment to Mr Wm. Hall at Constantinople the sum of £500 "...being the value of Rockets Purchased of him by my order" and is signed "Raglan"

Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788 – 1855), known before 1852 as Lord FitzRoy Somerset, was a British Army officer. As a junior officer he served in the Peninsular War and the Hundred Days, latterly as military secretary to the Duke of Wellington. He also took part in politics as Tory Member of Parliament for Truro before becoming Master-General of the Ordnance. He became commander of the British troops sent to the Crimea in 1854: while his primary objective was to defend Constantinople he was ordered to besiege the Russian Port of Sevastopol. After an early success at the Battle of Alma, a failure to deliver orders with sufficient clarity caused the fateful Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. Despite further success at the Battle of Inkerman, a piecemeal allied assault on Sevastopol in June 1855 was a complete failure. Raglan died later that month from a mixture of dysentery and clinical depression.

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