Description
A fine Autograph Letter Signed ‘Le Comte de Tilly’, soon after the Battle of Malplaquet, discussing the achievements and honours gained by Philippe Charles Frédéric Spinola, Comte de Bruay, military Governor of Namur, who had died in October 1709. In French. 2 pp. 9 x 7 inches, with an integral blank leaf, minor blemishes. Pencilled price of five guineas in an earlier collecting era. Liege, 28 October 1709. A good letter by a leading commander during the War of the Spanish Succession. Field Marshal Claude Frederic t’Serclaes, Count of Tilly (1648 –1723) was a Dutch States Army officer who served in the Franco-Dutch War, Nine Years’ War and the War of the Spanish Succession. A brave and capable cavalry general, in 1708 he became the de facto supreme commander of the Dutch army and led the Allied forces together with the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy. Together with Marlborough and Eugene, as head of the Dutch forces, Tilly defeated the French at Malplaquet.