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WELLINGTON (ARTHUR WELLESLEY, first Duke of) Autograph letter signed ("Wellington"), to Field Marshal Frederick, Duke of York, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, recommending his Military Secretary Lord FitzRoy Somerset be appointed ADC to the Prince Regent, Freneda and Paris, 2 December 1812 and 19 August 1815
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WELLINGTON (ARTHUR WELLESLEY, first Duke of)
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Wellington's letter to the Duke of York was written in favour of his secretary (and nephew by marriage) the future Lord Raglan who had lost his arm at Waterloo (famously protesting after the amputation: 'Hey, bring my arm back. There's a ring my wife gave me on the finger'). For his services at Waterloo Somerset was gazetted, as per this letter, ADC to the Regent on 28 August, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. The earlier letter dates from the time of Wellington's retreat after the failed siege of Burgos, when considerable disorder broke out among the troops who, thanks to a blunder of the commissary, had had to go without rations: his Second-in-Command had written out to restore order but had been captured by some daring French skirmishers. He was to be held prisoner until 1814. This letter is published in The Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington from 1799 to 1818, vol. ix, edited by John Gurwood (1838).





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