Letter from Captain George Percival to his aunt, Mrs Charles Drummond, 15 February 1811

In this letter, sent from Cartaxo, Percival relates a skirmish with French pickets, and that he had dined twice at the Duke of Wellington's residence in the past week, where he conversed with a captured French officer.

From a collection of 23 letters 1810-1814, written by Captain George Harvey Percival, Coldstream Guards.