ALS to Adair with: DS promoting James Vospier to Captain

by Hugh Gough, Viscount

$300 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

A single page each. The ALS on a bifolium, the DS vellum. 12mo & 4to. Both documents with old folds, the DS a little grubby. Item #304956 Promoted to Field Marshall in 1862, Gough had served in the Peninsular War, the First Opium War in 1841, he helped defeat the Mahrattas and Sikhs and was appointed Commander in Chief in India in 1843. ODNB, summarises Gough's achievements, thus: Gough, a man of noble presence, was said to have commanded in

• Binding: Leather

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