Excerpt from The Despatches of Field-Marshal, the Duke of Wellington: During His Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, and Relating to America, From 1799 to 1815
This volume, consisting of selections from the despatches and documents relating to the various campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, from 1799 to 1815, is an epitome of the monumental work compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel Gurwood, Esquire to His Grace as Knight of the Bath. The despatches as published by Colonel Gurwood fill twelve bulky volumes, but, like the compilation of Nelson's despatches by Sir N. H. Nicolas, much that is dull and tedious is included, and great numbers of documents are given which have little or no present-day interest.
I have adopted the plan of so selecting the papers that they present the Duke of Wellington, to use Colonel Gurwood's happy expression, as 'the historian of his own brilliant career.' I have completed the precis of the Duke's services from 1835 to the time of his death, in 1852, and when notes have been needed to make certain points clearer or more interesting I have added them. With the exception of these notes, which are initialled, in order to distinguish them from Colonel Gurwood's, the entire book is a condensation of his work.
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