LETTER from SOLDIER. aut. letter signed "Hippolyte... - Lot 79 - FW Auction

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LETTER from SOLDIER. aut. letter signed "Hippolyte... - Lot 79 - FW Auction
LETTER from SOLDIER. aut. letter signed "Hippolyte de Bernion" to his mother. Castrovillary, 1 March 1807. 3 pp. bi-foil small in-8, address on verso, postmark. Letter written shortly after the capture of Amantea (Italy) by the general Régnier. (...) We arrived here to to go to the siege of Amantea, but the city was given up and it is here that we received the news of it (...). We pretty well kicked the Calabrians without even one man being wounded (...). I have travelled almost Italy but there is no more beautiful country than France (...). When one arrives in some village, there is never never anyone, all this saving, it is not a war, it is a brigandage. To be able to win over these people, you have to fight to fight in their own way. that it is unfortunate that brave Frenchmen should be obliged to make war in such a and I am sure that I will be able to do so in the near future. We leave tomorrow for a small village (...). We are here only four companies (...). We know nothing of the news here (...).
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