WELLINGTON, Autograph manuscript battle orders from the Waterloo campaign, 1815 (1 page)

WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BATTLE ORDERS FROM THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN

sending an unnamed officer from Cambrai to Péronne and Nesle, with orders for the commanding officer in Péronne ("...He must send me without loss of time a return of the ordnance & stores in the place including Provisions in order that I may know what to throw in...”), in pencil, 1 page, 4to, [?27 June 1815], damp staining 

[with:] Seymour Bathurst, autograph letter signed, to his sister Emily, describing the storming of Péronne and enclosing Wellington's orders ("...in case you would like to have some orders of the Duke of Wellington's own handwriting I send you the enclosed which he gave me to carry..."), 5 pages, 8vo, Conchy les pots near Roije, 28 June 1815

Péronne, on the banks of the Somme, was captured on 26 June during the Allied advance on Paris following the victory at Waterloo. Seymour Bathurst (1793-1834), whom Wellington entrusted with these orders, was the third son of the 3rd Earl Bathurst, was a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards at Waterloo. WE HAVE NO RECORD OF BATTLE ORDERS BY WELLINGTON HAVING BEEN SOLD AT AUCTION IN RECENT DECADES.

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