RARE AUTOGRAPHED DISPLAY OF FITZROY SOMERSET BARON RAGLAN WHO COMMANDED THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE CRIMEAN WAR AND ORDERED THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Field Marshal FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, GCB, PC (30 September 1788 – 28 June 1855), known before 1852 as Lord FitzRoy, Somerset, was a British Army officer. When a junior officer, he served with distinction in the Peninsula War and the Waterloo Campaign, latterly as military secretary to the Duke of Wellington. He also took part in politics as the Tory Member of Parliament for Truro, before becoming Master General of Ordnance.
He became commander of the British troops sent to the Crimea in 1854: his primary objective was to defend Constantinople, and he was also ordered to beseige the Russian port of Sevastopol. After an early success at the Battle of the Alma, a failure to deliver orders with sufficient clarity caused the fateful Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. Despite further success at the Battle of Inkerman, a poorly coordinated allied assault on Sevastopol in June 1855 was a complete failure. Raglan died later that month, after having dysentry and depression.
Raglan was blamed by the press and the government for the sufferings of the British soldiers in the terrible Crimean winter during the iege of Sevastopol owing to shortages of food and clothing although this, in part, was the fault of the home authorities who failed to provide adequate logistical support. A piecemeal allied assault on Sevastopol on 18 June 1855 was a complete failure. The anxieties of the siege began to seriously undermine Raglan's health and he died unexpectedly on 28 June 1855, while suffering with dysentry and depression His body was embalmed, his heart buried in the garden of his headquarters in Sevastopol, and his body brought home and interred at St Michael and All Angels Church.
Signatures of Baron Raglan are rare and collectable due to his command position at and also dying in Crimea.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Approx 7 x 5 Inch photo professionally double mounted above an envelope front authentically signed as per item description and featured image. The display comes with a numbered Certificate of Authenticity from the issuer 'A Sign of the Times, Autographs of Distinction' who is an accredted autographs business based in the UK. Please see there CV below;
Approx 7 x 5 Inch photo professionally double mounted above an envelope front authentically signed as per item description and featured image. The display comes with a numbered Certificate of Authenticity from the issuer 'A Sign of the Times, Autographs of Distinction' who is an accredted autographs business based in the UK. Please see there CV below.
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