Letters. To Mrs MacDonald from Lt. Col. MacDonald in the Penninsula and France. General news of Peninsula War
- Reference No:
- U DDBM2/2
- Dates:
- 1812-1813
- Description:
Including:
Bonaparte in Artoga for two days, leaving Soult to persue Gen. Moore's army. The town had only recently been taken fron the French who had maintained a siege of nine of ten months against several thousand Spaniards. 10 October 1812
Wellington has quitted Burgos. 26 October 1812
Dines with Wellington. 10 November 1812
Capture of Gen. Paget. 21 November 1812
French have evacuated whole of Northern Spain and greater part of their cavalry have quitted the country entirely. 20 December 1812
Lt. Col. MacDonald to be made Brigadier General. 11 January 1813
Reports loss of six hundred men in two battlalions through sickness. 8 March 1813
Further loss of 80 - 100 men including Lt. Colonel MacDonald's particular friend Col. Martin. 13 December 1813
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 27 items
- Language:
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
- Papers of the Bosville-Macdonald Family of Gunthwaite, Thorpe and Skye