DYOTT, William Major-General. 21071

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Autograph Letter Signed, to the Quarter Master General, about changing the place of assembly for the East Worcester Local Militia. 2 pp. 9 x 7 inches, fine, lower blank trimmed away. Lichfield, 17 March 1811. General William Dyott (1761-1847) served in Nova Scotia, the West Indies, Egypt (1801), and in the Walcheren Expedition (1809). See Dyott’s Diary, 1781-1845 : a selection from the journal of William Dyott, sometime general in the British army and aide-de-camp to His Majesty King George III. Edited by Reginald W. Jeffery (1907).