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Memoir of the early campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain
by John Fane, lord Westmorland
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Memoir of the early campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland was a British soldier, politician, diplomat, composer and musician. He was educated at Cheam School and then at Harrow from 1797 to 1799. On 9 May 1803, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire, and after the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Militia on 30 June 1803. He entered the regular army as an ensign in the 11th Foot on 24 December 1803. In 1806, he was sent abroad, serving as assistant adjutant general to the forces in Sicily and Egypt from 1806 to 1807. He was with Admiral Duckworth's fleet during the Dardanelles Operation and then took part in the Alexandria expedition of 1807. In 1808 he joined the army in Portugal led by Sir Arthur Wellesley and fought at Roliça and Vimiero in August 1808 and Talavera (1809).
DESCRIPTION
Octavo. 240 pp, set in Brunel Text Roman No 2 and printed on Zuber Rieder pure cotton paper in an edition of 25 copies (this is no 1).
Bound by hand in leather with marbled boards.
Attractively bound by hand, titles, and decoration to spine gilt, glit top edge.
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Brand new copy in a fine binding.
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- Bookseller
- Regency Books 1811
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21
- Title
- Memoir of the early campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in Portugal and Spain
- Author
- John Fane, lord Westmorland
- Format/Binding
- Bound by hand
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rambler Press
- Place of Publication
- Warsaw
- Pages
- 226
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Spain, Napoleon, Portugal, Wellington, war
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About Regency Books 1811
The Rambler Press was founded in the summer of 2013 and was conceived from love for English culture, history, and countryside as well as handmade paper and Caslon type. Our main purpose is to capture the beauty of 18th-century books, the finest period of English typography: bygone historical ligatures, long s, ornaments, what once created an exceptional piece of printing, sometimes called – without any exaggeration – "fine printing".
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