Signed Military Document (18 results)

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Signed and Written Part of a Military Document Detailing Soldiers deaths by General John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham. Undated but 1802. General John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, 1756-1835 was a British soldier and politician. Chatham was the eldest son of Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. He was two and a half years older than his famous brother William Pitt the Younger, the future prime minister. He spent a lengthy period in the cabinet but is best known for commanding the disastrous Walcheren Campaign of 1809. He was Master General of His Majesty's Ordnance from 1801-1806. Size of document is 250mm x 115mm. Condition is quite good. Light marking. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17155. Signed by Author(s).

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Signed part of a Military Document by Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Grandson of George III and Cousin of Queen Victoria and Edward Stanhope. C1890. Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (George William Frederick Charles) 1819-1904 was a member of the British royal family, a male-line grandson of George III and cousin of Queen Victoria. The Duke was an army officer by profession and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces (military head of the British Army) from 1856 to 1895. He became Duke of Cambridge in 1850 and field marshal in 1862. Deeply devoted to the old Army, he worked with Queen Victoria to defeat or minimise every reform proposal, such as setting up a general staff. His Army became a moribund and stagnant institution. Its weaknesses were dramatically revealed by the poor organisation at the start of the Second Boer War. Edward Stanhope 1840-1893 was a British Conservative Party politician who was Secretary of State for War from 1887 to 1892. Provenance: From the family of autograph collector Emily Mary Rose Lee (1869-1949), wife of Colonel William Crawford Walton (1864-1937). Emily was the daughter of William Lee, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow from 1874 to 1886, and granddaughter of John Lee (1779-1859), Principal of Edinburgh University from 1840 to 1859. Size is 100m x 80mm. Condition is good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17163. Signed by Author(s).

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, folio. Text clear and entire, on worn and grubby paper, with chipping to edges and slight loss to one corner, with one closed tear repaired with archival tape. Embossed tax stamps at head. Good firm signature at bottom right 'David Dundas.', beside small seal in red wax, with crumbling impression. At bottom left: 'Signed Sealed and Delivered (being first duly stampt) in the Presence of us / John Landon / M King'. Downwards in left-hand margin: 'Entered in the Office for Auditing the Public Accounts the 9th of February 1797 / Thos Gibbes'. Begins: 'Know all Men by these Presents that I David Dundas Esqr. Major General of His Majestys Forces and Colonel of the Twenty Second Regiment of Foot, for and in Consideration of Clothing furnished and delivered by Alexander Adair Esqr. of Pall Mall to and for the Use of the said Regiment [.]'. The document concerns 'the Offreckonings or Clothing Money of Twenty Serjeants, Twenty Corporals, Eight Drummers, Two Hundred Privates, Ten Contingent Men and Eight Warrant Men'.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States, came to office during a period of growing tension between the North and South. A politician of limited ability, Pierce was behind one of the most crucial pieces of legislation in American history. Although he did not author the Kansas-Nebraska Act, he did encourage its passage by Congress. And that piece of legislation set the nation on its path to civil war. Like many American politicians, Franklin Pierce's career was aided by his father, a two-term governor of New Hampshire. Before he was thirty, Franklin Pierce had served in the New Hampshire legislature and had been elected to the U.S. Congress wherehe served as both a congressman and senator. Bored and lonely in Washington, the young congressman developed a drinking problem and a reputation as agossipy Washington insider. In an attempt to settle down, the handsome, socially gregarious Pierce married Jane Means Appleton. Jane Pierce washer husband's opposite; she was painfully shy, deeply religious, often in bad health, and a strong advocate of the temperance movement. She detested Washington and refused to live there, even after Pierce became a U.S. senator in 1837. Indeed, Jane's disgust with the political life in Washington must have been behind Pierce's decision to resign from the Senate in 1841. Subsequently, Franklin Pierce served in the Mexican-American War, and in something of a surprise was elected President in 1852. After his presidency he retired to Concord, New Hampshire, where he died in 1869. Very good condition but somewhat faded. The red color of the US General Land Office Seal is washed out, but the "Franklin Pierce" signature is penned in dark ink, as is that of his Asst. Secretary. However, the red color shows throughthe verso. "Now Know Ye that there is herefore granted by the United States unto the said George W. Badger the tract of Land above described: To Have and to Hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said George W. Badger and to his heirs and assigns forever. In testimony whereof, I, Franklin Pierce, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at the City of Washington, the Ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Fifty three and of the independence of the United States the seventy-eighth. By the President: Signed: "Franklin Pierce" and by the Asst. Sec'y, "Jno. H. Wheeler." (Probable Secretarial signature, as both signatures are written in the same ink and have the sale calligraphic qualities.)Grants, Vol. 127, p. 309. With the US General Land Office Seal Affixed. Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States, came to office during a period of growing tension between the North and South. A politician of limited ability, Pierce was behind one of the most crucial pieces of legislation in American history. Although he did not author the Kansas-Nebraska Act, he did encourage its passage by Congress. And that piece of legislation set the nation on its path to civil war. Likemany American politicians, Franklin Pierce's career was aided by his father, a two-term governor of New Hampshire. Before he was thirty, Franklin Pierce had served in the New Hampshire legislature and had been elected to theU.S. Congress where he served as both a congressman and senator. Bored andlonely in Washington, the young congressman developed a drinking problem and a reputation as a gossipy Washington insider. In an attempt to settle down, the handsome, socially gregarious Pierce married Jane Means Appleton. Jane Pierce was her husband's opposite; she was painfully shy, deeply religious, often in bad health, and a strong advocate of the temperance mov.

One page 8vo, some defects, but text clear and complete, body of letter in secretarial hand. De la Grandville asks the magistrates of the town of Lille to provide 140 "fournitures des lits, et de les faire places a la Citadelle pour cazerner les miliciens engage pour l'armee d'Italie, etant necessaire de separer des bataillons qui sont en garrison dans la ville . . .".

Oblong folio. 1 page and three lines. Engraved form with manuscript entries and additional signatures. Issued some three months after the end of the War of the Sixth Coalition and Napoleon's abdication, for the nineteen-year-old Louis Justin F. Didelle, giving a physical description of the infantryman: "Nous soussignés, Membres du Conseil d'Administration du 15e Régiment d'Infanterie Légère. Certifions avoir donné Congé au Nommé Ridelle Louis Justin François Chasseur [.] Département de Seine & Marne âgé de Dix-neuf ans [.] compris au Registre-Matricule du Corps sous le No. 5453 [.]". Further signed by members of the directorate and stamped "Dépôt du 15e Régiment d'infanterie légère". The verso has three lines in an early hand noting the award of a military decoration by King Louis XVIII in July 1814. - In 1814 Ricard led a VI Corps division at La Rothière, Champaubert, Montmirail, Vauchamps, Gué-à-Tresmes, Laon, Reims, Fère-Champenoise and Paris. The following year he would participate in the Congress of Vienna to convince the Allies that France's army was loyal to Louis XVIII. - Slight waterstaining to the fold, slight foxing, marginal defects and tears along the folds, slightly browned.

Document, one leaf, fold marks, good condition, 40 x 30cm. See Image. Certificates illustrating Urquhart's military career in Inda are also available.

unbound. Partly printed military document signed, (6th Infantry), seven months before Little Big Horn, 16.75 x 10.75 inches, Standing Rock, [Nov. 1, 1875], "A Statement Of Forage and Straw Issued to and Consumed by the Public Animals under my direction at Standing Rock, Dakota Territory, during the month of October, 1875," for transient animals from Fort Rice, signed by Captain and Commander of Post James S. Poland, an officer who served under Major Reno at the Little Big Horn and was erroneously reported as "Killed In Action" when severely wounded in the back. At the time this document was signed, Poland was ordered to cease his sale of rifles and ammunition to Indians at the Standing Rock Reservation, as the recipients were closely connected with Sitting Bull's band. One month later, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs called for the use of troops against those Indians. Also signed by Lieutenant William Badger, a close friend of Custer who survived the Black Hills Campaign. His son Tom, who filled out the body of this document, became General Custer's personal secretary in 1876 and was killed at Little Big Horn. Also included: a Xerox of a rare photograph of the 7th cavalry, 6th infantry in uniform with accoutrements, all identified including Custer, Badger and Poland. Partial tearing along one of the folds; otherwise near fine condition.

Two pages, folio, minor defects including soiling, small holes and tears, but text complete and legible. Signatories at the top are: [Thomas] Parker, Henry Grey, Duke of Kent ("Kent C.P.S.), John Ker, Ist Duke of Roxburghe, James Craggs the Younger ("J Craggs"). "We do hereby direct, that out of such Moneys as are or shall come to your hands for the following Uses you lay unto William Burroughs Esqre late Commissary Generall of his Majesty's Stores, Provisions and fforage in North Britain the respective summs following Viz" Balance due . 1506.13.8; For a Ballance becoming due upon an account allowed and stated for the Shires of Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian and Lanark £2429.1.9; For the Extraordinary Services of William Rigg and Willm Hamilton relating to the fforage and Provisions in the said Shires 280.0.0. Total £4215.15.5 to be paid to Burroughs "Given at the Cockpit this 30 th day of July 1719 . . . To the Rt Honble Henry Earl of Lincoln Paymaster General of his Majesty's Guards, Garrisons and Land fforces in Great Britain and Forces Abroad" Signed "Geo: Ireby". Finally William Burroughs signs a receipt. Note: both Roxburgh and Craggs were later involved in financial scandals. And 1719 was the year of a minor Jacobite rebellion.

Condition: Very Good. One partly-printed military commisssion on vellum signed by Lincoln as president and countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War dated May 16th, 1863. The document commissions Benjamin H. Geary as Second Lieutenant to the 13th Infantry Regiment on August 13th, 1862. Accession note to top left. The document measures 14.75 x 19.5 in.

The son of a New Hampshire Governor, Badger fought in the Civil War. After that war, he was commissioned a lieutenant, assigned to the 6th Regiment of U.S. Infantry. Often stationed in Indian territory, he was later brevetted a captain for "gallant and meritorious services during the war." DS. 1pg. 11" x 16". 1883. Fort Leavenworth, KS. A partly printed document signed "Wm. Badger", the great military officer. It reads: "ABSTRACT OF FUNDS received from sales of Fuel, Forage, Straw, and other articles authorized by the War Department to be sold to officers of the U.S. Army, at Fort Leavenworth Mil. Prison, KS by Capt. Wm. Badge, 6th Inf. AA, Quartermaster. U.S. Army, during the month of July, 1883." The document goes on to list the various amounts of many paid by the different military officers for fuel, totaling $13.50. The document is in fine condition, with some toning and folds separations.

unbound. 1 page, 11.25 x 8.25 inches, Union Soviet Socialist Republics -- a Proclamation authorizing the celebration of Army & Navy Day for the year 1974. Natural folds; gentle wear along the top edge. Very good condition. Lieutenant General in the Soviet Army who distinguished himself in combat during World War II. He later headed the Chemical Troops and was directly responsible for providing Syria with weapons of mass destruction in the 1980s. He had a controversial role in the Chernobyl crises, placing himself in harm's way at ground zero in order to record radiation levels in the vicinity.

Condition: Very Good. Attractive document 35 by 24 cms headed in calligraphic print headed 'Vittorio Emanuele 111 Re d'Italia. Per Grazia di Dio E Por Volonta Della Nazione.' In very good condition. Boldly signed in ink by King Vittorio Emanuele 111 and Mussolini. The king met Mussolini during World War I and was also a reader of Mussolini's newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia. He appointed him Prime Minister. When World War II broke out in 1939, Victor Emmanuel advised Mussolini against entering the war. In June 1940, he relented and granted Mussolini sweeping powers.the rest is history.

Perón, Juan. Signed military appointments document. May 12, 1944. This document records the administrative machinery of the Argentine Army during the period in which Juan Perón was consolidating influence within the military government that emerged after the 1943 coup. The material preserves an official appointments record on Ejército Argentino letterhead documenting military personnel administration and the exercise of authority through routine bureaucratic instruments. Created two years before Perón's first election to the presidency in 1946, it provides evidence for the study of Argentine military governance, state formation, and the bureaucratic foundations of Perón's early political ascent. Perón was an army colonel who later became president of Argentina and founder of the Peronist movement. Perón, Juan. Ejército Argentino document signed. Buenos Aires, May 12, 1944. One page, 8.5 x 13 inches. Signed "Perón" in fountain pen. The document concerns the appointment of officials, preserving the formal language and administrative structure of wartime Argentine military paperwork. Several official stamps and notations appear on the sheet, and punch holes at the left margin indicate filing within an institutional records system. Military letterhead, personnel content, manuscript signature, and office markings place the document within the daily administrative practices through which the army managed rank, assignments, and internal authority during a politically volatile year. A comparable June 1944 document signed by Perón identifies him as Secretary of Labor and Welfare, while a July 1944 signed directive shows him acting as War Minister, underscoring how rapidly his governmental authority expanded during this period. Dated in the midst of World War II and less than two years before Perón's presidential victory, the document belongs to the transitional phase in which military office, labor policy, and executive ambition became closely linked in Argentine public life. The document places Perón within the military bureaucracy that supported the political position later identified with Peronism. Punch holes to left side and several official notations and stamps; signature remains clear and strong. Overall very good condition. A concise Perón document from the bureaucratic phase of his rise, preserving the institutional structure of Argentine military governance in 1944. Signed.

the printed part lists the Duke's titles and orders, and he has written a note giving a free pass for soldiers from the Regiment of Dragoons who had been injured in the Battle of Luzzara, and signed it, there are then further entries signed by the other endorsers, 2 sides folio, given at the Camp of Sanguinetto, 4th May The Battle of Luzzara was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession, fought on 15 August 1702 near Luzzara, Italy between forces of France under Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme, and forces of Austria under Prince Eugene of Savoy.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. In this classic Presidential appointment document a Harold Whitman is commissioned as Captain in the Quartermaster Section. Only Newton Baker has signed as Secretary of War, President Wilson did not sign. 19 1/4" x 15 1/4". Condition: Light overall toning, otherwise very good, with blue paper seal intact.

No Binding. Condition: Good. **Please contact us before purchasing for an accurate shipping quote. This item is large and framed and will require a higher shipping charge than what is posted.** In this part-printed document John Jay, as Governor of New York, appoints a Jacobus Hardenbergh "Cornet of a Troop in the Second Squadron of Cavalry in the Second Division of the Militia."  Jay has signed under the embossed paper seal at the left margin. Paper document measures: 8" x 15" and is elaborately framed with a portrait to: 15 1/2" x 30".  John Jay (1745-1829) served as the 2nd Governor of the State of New York from 1795 to 1801. He was also the first Chief Justice of the United States (1789-1795). Condition: Document is laid on a pasteboard support, light fold lines, generally good condition (not examined out of frame).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Just over a month into his second term as President of the United States and six months prior to his assassination, William McKinley signed this document (February 28, 1901). This is the classic presidential document, a part-printed vellum military appointment with finely engraved vignettes, for James B. Hickey to advance to "Major of Cavalry". It is boldly signed by McKinley as President and Elihu Root as Secretary of War. Sight size: 18" x 14". Archivally matted and in a modern metal frame to: 22" x 18". Condition: A few nicks to the blue paper seal, otherwise very good. **Please Note: This item is framed and will require additional shipping charges.**.