CRIMEAN WAR - Letters home from a French officer at the front 1855-56 Autograph Type_Musical Quotation

CRIMEAN WAR - Letters home from a French officer at the front 1855-56 Autograph Type_Musical Quotation[CRIMEAN WAR] Group of 13 letters from Hippolyte Delphin, second lieutenant on the French General Staff, to his mother, starting two months after the fall of Sebastopol to the end of the war, giving news of conditions at the front, ineffectual bombardment by the Russian forces and news of the peace treaty. In all, 54 pages 8vo in French, Traktir, 26 November 1855 14 April 1856. A very interesting group of letters, filled with details about the daily

and later those of Florence Nightingale and Sidney Herbert

A brief letter

All the officers who were promoted in the army after the Battle of Austerlitz equally have no right to the campaign bonus

I was tempted

”The Volta Conferences were held in Rome at irregular intervals during the interwar years

as I thought that the money for the second-hand carriage I purchased of you has been long since paid: I know not of any other Bills

People are apparently going mad about this indemnity

Lady Cowley

Autograph Letter Signed (“le Gal

his relationship with Lloyd George was

and in the early 1840s he was once again out of favour with the police

a firm supporter of the French Revolution