ED 475 05 03 032
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ED 475 05 03 032
Title
Margaretta Brown: Letter from Fanny Proby
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Item
Date
c.1805
Content description
Addressed to 'Miss Browne at the Rev'd J Keates Eton College Windsor'. Update on family news. Talks of the safe arrival of Margaretta's brother and the death of Sir John Moore. Details conditions of soldiers, marching for 30 or 40 miles a day without shoes or stockings, up to their knees in mud and that there is no surprise therefore at their ill discipline and drunkenness. Discusses more of English valour against Napoleon.
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