NAPOLEON I. Six letters signed ('Np') to the Duke of Feltre (General Clarke), Paris, 27 March 1813, conveying a series of peremptory orders and questions concerning the movement of troops into Germany and Holland, demanding reports on the Spanish, Illyrian and Portuguese battalions, enquiring about the readiness of other foreign battalions, and when they will leave their present station, indicating some preference for French veterans, suggesting that a company be formed of 200 of the best officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers and sent to the front, and asking which general should be appointed to serve in Holland, 6 pages, 4° (contemporary annotations pinned at foot of each letter).

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NAPOLEON I. Six letters signed ('Np') to the Duke of Feltre (General Clarke), Paris, 27 March 1813, conveying a series of peremptory orders and questions concerning the movement of troops into Germany and Holland, demanding reports on the Spanish, Illyrian and Portuguese battalions, enquiring about the readiness of other foreign battalions, and when they will leave their present station, indicating some preference for French veterans, suggesting that a company be formed of 200 of the best officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers and sent to the front, and asking which general should be appointed to serve in Holland, 6 pages, 4° (contemporary annotations pinned at foot of each letter).

A series of orders evidently dictated in haste - one of them lacks the usual subscription 'sur ce je prie Dieu qu'il vous ait en sa sainte garde'. (6)

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