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Letter from Lord Stewart …

Letter from Lord Stewart, Heidelberg, to Lord Burghersh, 22 June 1815 (pp.121-124) ‘My dear Burghersh I lose no time in sending you enclosed such details as I have already learnt. Our glorious and incomparable victory has been bought dear. But in the lamentation over our friends we must be supported by considering to what a pitch England’s military fame and the name of Wellington have been carried. In breaking to you poor Fitzroy’s having lost his arm I ‘could’ deleted can equally assure you he is doing well. Poor Hardinge with Blucher has had his hand carried off by a cannon shot. I have no detailed accounts from our army but the enclosed are heads of what I have collected. We march tomorrow to Manheim, on the 2nd we shall be at Kaiserslautern, and on the 9th at Nancy when I hope to come into closer communication. I do not write to Lady Burghersh as I know not where she may be but I conclude you’ll take care of Fitzroy’s misfortune being broke in a proper manner to her. Ever yours most affectionately Stewart’ – From: Londonderry Estates – Additional Records Acc: 1193(D)

ref no.D/Lo/C 799(08)
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Date1814,
1846
EraHanoverian (1714 to 1837),
Victorian (1837 to 1901)
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