MARCOPHILY OF THE FIRST EMPIRE - SPANISH CAMPAIGN. - Lot 12

MARCOPHILY OF THE FIRST EMPIRE - SPANISH CAMPAIGN. RARE MILITARY FRANCHISE envelope with handwritten note at top left, signed autograph correspondence, departing from SEVILLE on June 3, 1810, from Capitaine d' Artillerie à Cheval (*) to Monsieur la Super Intendant de la fabrique de tabac à Séville "la capitaine d' ARTie a cheval a l' honneur de prier Monsieur le Super intendant de faire donner à Monsieur le CAPne Von Nicolas de la Torre les clefs d' une chambre pour y déposer le grain de distribution des mules de la DIVon espagnole attachée à l' artillerie de l' armée française. Si Monsieur le Superintendant veut avoir la complaisance de faire droit à cette prière il obligeera beaucoup le sussigné qui la fait qu'en vertu des ordres de Monsieur le Gal de Division SENARMONT (**), commandant en chef de l' artillerie de l' armée". A PRETTY AND RARE DOCUMENT on laid paper from the arme à la forme, watermarked with a cannon and its cannonballs and mentioning the mill manufacturer JF FORT ALCOY. (*) - horse artillery of the Guard created in 1806 and disbanded in 1815 - highly mobile, light, formidable artillery that took part in all Napoleonic battles and was decisive in many of them. ( ** ) - Alexandre Antoine HUREAU, baron de SENARMONT killed on October 26, 1810 by shrapnel during the siege of Casix, pioneer of modern artillery tactics.