Author: CAPTAIN GEORGE MURRAY
Title: Extract of a Letter about Lieutenant Beauchamp.
Description: La Seca, 1812. Bifolium, 200 x 125 mm. printed first page only. The extract relates to the exploits of Lieutenant Richard Beauchamp of the 16th. Light Dragoons, who had two horses shot under him in 1812, during a fight at Castrejon in the Peninsula Wars. "Lord Wellington had Beauchamp to tell the story, and laughed like to split his sides at the narration."

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