FIELD MARSHAL FREDERICK "1ST EARL ROBERTS" ROBERTS - THIRD PERSON AUTOGRAPH NOTE 03/31/1903 - HFSID 85105
Price: $320.00
FREDERICK S. ROBERTS
The field marshal pens a letter in regards to prior engagements in
which he will not be able to accept another invitation
Third Person Autograph Note signed: "Lord Roberts" , 1 p,
4½x6¾. On personal letterhead. No place, 1903 March 31. In full: "Fdr.
Lord Roberts much regrets that a previous engagement prevents his having the
honour of accepting the invitation of Mrs. G. T. Wilson to dinner on Wednesday
the 1st April." Field Marshal Lord Roberts' most noteworthy achievement was
the march on Kandahar. It took Roberts 22 days to move his army from Kabul to
Kandahar, 313 miles across Afghanistan's hostile terrain. On September 1,
1880, he obliterated Ayub Khan's Afghan Army in the decisive victory of the
Afghan War. Until the U.S. intervention in 2002, Roberts was the only
General to have emerged with flying colors from an expedition into Afghanistan
in the last 200 years. From 1892, he was known as Baron Roberts of Kandahar.
Roberts (1832-1914) later served as Commander in Chief in India (1885-1893),
Commander in Chief in Ireland (1895-1899) and he held the supreme command in
South Africa (1899-1900). During the Boer War, he annexed the Orange Free
State and Transvaal and captured Johannesburg and Pretoria. Slightly tanned at
edges. Mounting paper remnants on verso of blank conjoining page (no show
through). Otherwise, fine condition.
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