MILITARY MARCOPHILY - RESTORATION - FRENCH INTERVENTION IN S - Lot 13

MILITARY MARCOPHILY - RESTORATION - FRENCH INTERVENTION IN SPAIN. 1822 to 1824: Spanish King Ferdinand VII was faced with liberal opposition, which led to the kidnapping of the royal family in July 1822 after a military uprising. Meeting in Verona, the representatives of the great powers decided on an intervention to restore the monarch's power, and, thanks to Chateaubriant, entrusted the execution to the French armies led by the Duc d'Angoulême, nephew of Louis XVIII and son of the future Charles X. They thus restored FERDINAND VII's absolute power in 1823. VERY RARE POSTAL MARK, linear claw in black, handwritten tax at 10 reals. (R) ARM. D' ESPAGNE - "au camp de Sous Tarriffa le 16 aout 1824" for Grenoble. handwritten letter signed by Colonel de Cavalerie, brother of the Marquise de Langon, about the war. "You will no doubt be astonished to learn that I am with 12 companies of my regiment in front of Tariffa, besieging this place which three or four hundred rebels have seized in the last eight days. This town was occupied three months ago by a battalion of the regiment, but it pleased Monsieur le G. général to withdraw this force and hand over the town to the guard of some unfortunate Spaniards who let themselves be taken by surprise ... / ... what's most annoying about all this is that there's a considerable amount of equipment which puts the brigands in a position to resist...". etc... 2 pages of explanatory text on war and intrigue