BELL, Sir George (1794-1877) -- CRIMEAN WAR. Collection of autograph journals, notebooks, letters, photographs and other documents, comprising
BELL, Sir George (1794-1877) -- CRIMEAN WAR. Collection of autograph journals, notebooks, letters, photographs and other documents, comprising: 'A few rough notes by an old soldier', a journal of the Crimean War, February 1853 - 6 September 1855, in 2 volumes, 8vo; 'The Diary of an old Soldier, seeking where to pitch his tent', 24 May 1860 - 29 May 1861 (in fact mostly a retrospective narrative of his military career), in 2 volumes, 8vo; with two other journals of sojourns in the south of France, 28 October - 2 December 1862 and 25 October 1867 - 31 May 1868, another pocket book, and an apparently unrelated receipt book; a series of approximately 45 autograph letters signed to his wife during the Crimean campaign, Athens, Gallipoli, Varna, Alma (on the day after the battle), Balaclava, Sevastopol and elsewhere, 24 May 1854 - 15 March 1855, envelopes (many marked 'All well'), with an autograph letter signed by Lord Raglan, 5 February 1855, concerning rumours that Bell was a correspondent for the Times , and Bell's draft response, and five other related letters; together with approximately 36 other letters and documents, chiefly Bell's commissions and letters relating to decorations; 7 carte-de-visite photographs of the general in old age; and the author's copy of Rough Notes by an Old Soldier (London: Day and Son, Ltd, 1867), 2 volumes (worn), and a related prospectus. Sir George Bell is chiefly known for his 'gossiping and amusing' (ODNB) Rough Notes by an Old Soldier , which recounts a military career which began in the Peninsula War and ended in the Crimea, by way of the 1st Anglo-Burmese War and the Canadian rebellion of 1837-8. Bell's Crimean journals include an eye-witness account of the Charge of the Light Brigade, 25 October 1854: ' Memorable day . The story of this day will be told by a thousand tongues & in many languages ... the brigade went madly forward at the charge, dashed in amongst the Cossacks and cut them down right and left, but they had gone too far and now the Russian field Batteries opened on them with distinctive power ... Trumpets sounded the retreat and our cavalry fell back in a gallop the Cossacks pursued & strange to say the russians unmindful of their own people poured volleys of shot & shell into both parties until few were left to return to their respective lines. It was a terrible slaughter'. His Crimean letters include vivid accounts of the battles of the Alma and Inkerman.
BELL, Sir George (1794-1877) -- CRIMEAN WAR. Collection of autograph journals, notebooks, letters, photographs and other documents, comprising
BELL, Sir George (1794-1877) -- CRIMEAN WAR. Collection of autograph journals, notebooks, letters, photographs and other documents, comprising: 'A few rough notes by an old soldier', a journal of the Crimean War, February 1853 - 6 September 1855, in 2 volumes, 8vo; 'The Diary of an old Soldier, seeking where to pitch his tent', 24 May 1860 - 29 May 1861 (in fact mostly a retrospective narrative of his military career), in 2 volumes, 8vo; with two other journals of sojourns in the south of France, 28 October - 2 December 1862 and 25 October 1867 - 31 May 1868, another pocket book, and an apparently unrelated receipt book; a series of approximately 45 autograph letters signed to his wife during the Crimean campaign, Athens, Gallipoli, Varna, Alma (on the day after the battle), Balaclava, Sevastopol and elsewhere, 24 May 1854 - 15 March 1855, envelopes (many marked 'All well'), with an autograph letter signed by Lord Raglan, 5 February 1855, concerning rumours that Bell was a correspondent for the Times , and Bell's draft response, and five other related letters; together with approximately 36 other letters and documents, chiefly Bell's commissions and letters relating to decorations; 7 carte-de-visite photographs of the general in old age; and the author's copy of Rough Notes by an Old Soldier (London: Day and Son, Ltd, 1867), 2 volumes (worn), and a related prospectus. Sir George Bell is chiefly known for his 'gossiping and amusing' (ODNB) Rough Notes by an Old Soldier , which recounts a military career which began in the Peninsula War and ended in the Crimea, by way of the 1st Anglo-Burmese War and the Canadian rebellion of 1837-8. Bell's Crimean journals include an eye-witness account of the Charge of the Light Brigade, 25 October 1854: ' Memorable day . The story of this day will be told by a thousand tongues & in many languages ... the brigade went madly forward at the charge, dashed in amongst the Cossacks and cut them down right and left, but they had gone too far and now the Russian field Batteries opened on them with distinctive power ... Trumpets sounded the retreat and our cavalry fell back in a gallop the Cossacks pursued & strange to say the russians unmindful of their own people poured volleys of shot & shell into both parties until few were left to return to their respective lines. It was a terrible slaughter'. His Crimean letters include vivid accounts of the battles of the Alma and Inkerman.
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