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BLÜCHER, Gebhard Leberecht von, Prince of Wahlstatt (1742-1819). Autograph letter signed ('Blücher') to his brother-in-law, Namur, 16 June 1815, 2 pages, 4to , bifolium (light browning, upper right corner cut from integral blank, traces of guards).
BLÜCHER, Gebhard Leberecht von, Prince of Wahlstatt (1742-1819). Autograph letter signed ('Blücher') to his brother-in-law, Namur, 16 June 1815, 2 pages, 4to , bifolium (light browning, upper right corner cut from integral blank, traces of guards). ON THE MORNING OF THE BATTLE OF LIGNY. Blücher writes on the course of the current campaign, 'I have been called again into the field, and hope and wish that the war will not be of long duration', going on to recommend to his brother a certain 'Gaull', whom he wishes to retain as long as the war lasts -- he has written to his daughter-in-law in Berlin on the subject. The battle of Waterloo, which followed two days after Blücher's defeat at Napoleon's hands at Ligny, ensured that the war was not after all to be of long duration.