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forwarding a letter from Count Bezin enclosing a note from 'His Majesty', Carlo Emmanuele III of Sardinia and Prince of Piedmont [these enclosures not present], for the Commander at Cherasco to have the auxiliaries supplied as necessary, saying that it is of old date, and if that causes any difficulty to send a courier in haste to get it repeated, meanwhile Birago is to keep to "all the orders I gave you by your Lieutenant Blavet", 1 side 4to., Canale (French Canal), 2nd March The war of 1740-1748 was fought on many fronts. In North Italy the Austrians and Piedmontese joined forces against the invading French and Spanish. Count Birago in this letter was Milanese, while Bezin was a Count of the Dukedom of Lorraine, whose former Duke Francis was now Emperor and the husband of Maria Theresia. Leutrum from Baden, was probably the best field commander of the Savoy army in the 18th century. Son of the Master of the Hunt to the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, he had enlisted as a boy of 14.… Read More

on a card, 5" x 3", no place, 7th April Pétain was a French general officer who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of World War I, during which he became known as The Lion of Verdun, and in World War II served as the Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944. Pétain, who was 84 years old in 1940, ranks as France's oldest head of state.

headed "The Conditions of Modern Warfare: The Blue Devils", about "a fine feat of arms in Haute Alsace, from the 14th to the 21st June, accomplished by the 6th Company of the 7th Battalion of Light Infantry (chasseurs à pied)" which has prompted "the Officer Commanding the Army of the Vosges" (General Maud'huy) to rename "the company in question... the Sidi-Brahim Company, in memory of the heroism shown in 1844 by the company of chasseurs which had taken refuge in the marabout [chapel containing the tomb of a devotee frontiersman] of Sidi-Brahim", the 6th Company in aiming to take "the height of Hilsenfürst, south of Metzeral... having pierced the line of the German avant-garde, found itself hemmed in for four days, during which it was able to resist victoriously all enemy attacks", he describes the Captain's laying out a square of trenches, communicating in Provençal with the bulk of the 7th Battalion so that the latter… Read More

subscribed but not signed, to "Your Eminence", apparently from a servant of "poor L'ascasas" who "is no more, his illness was most extraordinary, he could not control it" in spite of taking "the waters at Valdagno [North West of Vicenza] and rode out here and there for several days", her husband sent the packet to him at Tressino [Trissino] "by a mounted orderly... His will states that all the trinkets are to go to his wife" and details the provision for his heir aged 9, for a natural son in Italy, and "in England, for the education of a lad who is not his son, up to the age of 24... 14 Prussian florins a month... I have not yet bought the two books as they promised me them '[in Italian] in sheets, not bound'. I will take care of everything when the nobility come back from their Willagiature [sic, country houses]. Vallis' baggage came through here to go to the Army of the Rhine by way of the Tyrol. He... will go through Linz...… Read More

saying that on 25th May 1800 he "gave order to Citizen Renard to deliver at Troyes... 5795 Shirts... for the foreign prisoners of war", which by 13th July had still not arrived, he reminds Desvaux that "the 18th Military Division forms part of those you have to support as deputy to Citizen Renard" and that supplying the shirts is "of the highest priority", attractive printed heading with woodblock device, 1 side 4to, address on conjugate leaf 'chez le Citoyen Magon-la-Balue Place Vendôme No. 10', Paris, 30th Fructidor year 8,17th September When Carnot was a member of the Committee of Public Safety, he was responsible for almost all its military business, frequently visiting the Eastern front against the Austrians and their allies. In the reaction against the Terror he was denounced in the Convention, at which a member cried out "Will you dare to lay hands on the man who has organized victory?" Early in 1800 he became Minister for War again, and… Read More

saying that her "sympathy for my country, so spontaneously and kindly expressed has touched me deeply", and thanking her, 1 side card, 4" x 5½", Sector 5, 27th December remains of laying down on verso During the first half of 1916 Pétain won great laurels by successfully holding the fortress town of Verdun against the Germans, led by the Crown Prince. At the time of this card he was in command of the armies of the Centre, becoming C-in-C Western Front 1917-1918. A certain caution led him to success in WWI, but in WWII to the surrender of France, for which he was tried and imprisoned after the Liberation.

showing him head and shoulders, three quarter face, in uniform as a Major in the 74th Infantry regiment, 3½" x 2¼", no place, no date, circa In 1894 Major Esterházy attempted to sell secrets to the German military attaché in Paris, particularly about the state of French artillery, and was at last successful. He said he would leave a list, the notorious 'bordereau', of documents he could obtain, which was found by the French authorities. By some process of elimination they fastened on Staff Officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus as the culprit, who was sentenced to transportation for life, after a secret tribunal fuelled by anti-Semitism. In face of protests by the Dreyfusards the army published the bordereau in 1897. The real author was quickly established and Esterházy faced a secret courtmartial, but was unbelievably acquitted. The case divided France for over a decade, even though a Colonel Henry confessed in 1898 to forging supporting documents… Read More