A Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals and Artefacts

Marshal Gebhard Blucher, Prince of Wahlstatt (1742-1819) Autograph Letter, the letter is dated Namur 16th June 1815, 2 pages, 4to, bifolium (light browning, upper right corner cut from integral blank, traces of guards), good condition
£1000-2000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals and Artefacts.

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On the morning of the Battle of Ligny Blucher writes on the course of the current campaign, ‘I have been called again into the field, and hope and wish that the war will not be of long duration’, going on to recommend to his brother a certain ‘Gaull’, whom he wishes to retain as long as the war lasts - he has written to his daughter-in-law in Berlin on the subject.

The battle of Waterloo, which followed two days after Blucher’s defeat at Napoleon’s hands at Ligny, ensured that the war was not after all to be of long duration.