WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 15/16 MAY 2021

22 19th Century 41 NapoleonicWars. Early 19th century military travel chest of a 52nd Regiment officer also a 19th century wooden tea caddy. Name plate reads “Captain Robert Blackwood, 52nd Regiment”. The 52nd (Oxfordshire Light) served in the Peninsular Campaign and on 1s March 1812 (on the march to Badajoz) a Lieutenant Robert Blackwood was wounded. The tea caddy with a basket of flowers design 16 by 12 by 9in. (40.6 by 30.5 by 22.9cm) Condition: Travel chest rusted, complete with key, lock working, good, and tea caddy wiuth slight dents and scratches, one piece loose but present for repair, lacking key, very good. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£130) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 41 40 1813 letter from Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, duc de Dalmatie (1769-1851) Written to a General commanding the Grenadiers, from Boulogne concerning a flotilla and a corvette which arrived in Boulogne. Signed Soult. Single sheet. 9.50 by 6.50in. (24.1 by 16.5cm) Condition: Very good Marshal General Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult,1st Duke of Dalmatia, was a French general and statesman, named Marshal of the Empire in 1804 and often called Marshal Soult. Soult was one of only six officers in French history to receive the distinction of Marshal General of France. The Duke also served three times as President of the Council of Ministers, or Prime Minister, of France. Soult’s intrigues in the Peninsular War while occupying Portugal earned him the nickname, “King Nicolas”, and while he was Napoleon’s military governor of Andalusia, Soult looted 1.5 million francs worth of art. One historian called him“a plunderer in the world class.” He was defeated in his last offensives in Spain in the Battle of the Pyrenees (Sorauren) and by Freire’s Spaniards at San Marcial. Soult was eventually pursued out of Spain and onto French soil, where he was maneuvered out of several positions at Nivelle, Nive, and Orthez, before the Battle of Toulouse. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£130) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 40