FIELD MARSHAL FREDERICK "1ST EARL ROBERTS" ROBERTS - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 10/15/1912 - HFSID 166568

FREDERICK S. ROBERTS
The field marshal sends a letter of thanks and expresses his apologies for having to send a typed letter instead of handwritten
Typed Letter Signed: "Roberts", 1 p, 4¼x7. On personal letterhead. Englemere (England), 1912 October 15. To "Dear Graham" In full: "Please accept my best thanks for your kind Congratulations on my Eightieth Birthday, and excuse my having to acknowledge them in a printed letter, as I have so many to answer. Yours very sincerely." Roberts has handwritten "15", "Graham" and "Sincerely" (overwriting "truly"). 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. Light 2x½" stain at blank upper left. Faint ½" stain touches underlining of signature. Otherwise, fine condition.