1861 Private Diary of Travels, Personal Services, and Public Events

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Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in two volumes. The private diaries of General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, a British general and politician who served in Flanders, Egypt, the Iberian Peninsula, Prussia, and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat as the Whig Member of Parliament, and later served as the Governor of Gibraltar. Containing information from missions and employments with the European armies in the campaigns of 1812, 1813, and 1814, from the invasion of Russia to the capture of Paris. From the personal notes of not only an experienced general but also a British politician during the events of Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Moscow. Edited by his nephew and son-in-law Reverend Herbert Randolph, a British clergyman. With publisher's catalogue to the rear of volume two.