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Lot 32

Sir Sidney Smith

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18 October 2005, 14:00 BST
Oxford

£1,500 - £2,000

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Sir Sidney Smith

Collection relating to Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, hero of the Siege of Acre, comprising six autograph letters by him, one "secret & confidential" to General Sir John Stuart concerning their Calabrian campaign of 1806; a deposition by him written after the Waterloo campaign, a letter to him by Captain John Wesley Wright (who had been imprisoned with him in France) from Rosetta in 1801; and two framed and glazed commemorative medals

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See also lot 65.

Saleroom notices

Please note that the following aquatint is included in the lot: "View of Acre & H.M. Ship Le Tigre" by Edward Orme after F.B. Spilsbury, 1803.

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