Autograph Letter Signed Napier of Magdala, to Martin Wood [former editor of the Times of India and writer on Indian affairs], thanking him for his daughters photograph, reflecting on the Queens new title of Empress of India, and commenting on his own victory at the Battle of Jaora Alipur (1858) and his crucial capture of Feroze Shah
by NAPIER OF MAGDALA, Robert Cornelis, 1st Baron
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Undated, probably 1877. 6 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition. Lord Napier of Magdala (1810-90) served in campaigns in India and distinguished himself at the siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. After the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868, Napier of Magdala became commander in chief in India. ... it was a defeat by two troops of Dragoons of a force of three or four thousand armed insurgents with leaders such a Feroze Shah ... who cut their way through Lord Clydes troops.
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- Title
- Autograph Letter Signed ‘Napier of Magdala’, to Martin Wood [former editor of the Times of India and writer on Indian affairs], thanking him for his daughter’s photograph, reflecting on the Queen’s new title of Empress of India, and commenting on his own victory at the Battle of Jaora Alipur (1858) and his crucial capture of Feroze Shah
- Author
- NAPIER OF MAGDALA, Robert Cornelis, 1st Baron
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Undated, probably 1877
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