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Campaigning with Grant
Collection — bound volume: E672 .P842
Identifier: E672 .P842
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 46 engraved portraits, 2 engraved other illustrations, 1 photographic print and 22 textual documents inserted into William Van R. Whitall's copy of Horace Porter's Campaigning with Grant. The textual documents are either manuscript or partially manuscript and partially printed. Each of the portraits is of a prominent leader mentioned by Porter at some point in the text. Although the textual documents vary in form, function and scope, each document contains an...
Dates:
1860 - 1900
Peninsular War letters and other manuscript correspondence
Collection
Identifier: Peninsular War letters
Scope and Contents
Collection includes 22 letters and reports to and from various officers in the (British-organized) Portuguese army of the Peninsular War; many to Gen. William Carr Beresford and to Beresford's aide-de-camp and military secretary Robert Arbuthnot, most dating from April 1809; correspondents include Beresford's agent in London, Angus McDonald; Lt. Col. J. Brown; Maj. Dudley Hill; Capt. Baron Marsalek [?]; Maj. (and later Col.) Alexander Dixon, Beresford's artillery commander; Lt. Col. (later...
Dates:
1782-1911