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Autograph letter, dated 20th February, 1893, written on two pages and part of a third, from Treasury Gate, Fort William, [India] to a Mrs. Tucker. He regrets it is not in his power to help her in a request for a relative of hers to join the Staff Corps. Roberts writes that he hopes to see her when he returns to England. [Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford (1832-1914) was educated at Sandhurst and Addiscombe, joining the Bengal Artillery, 1851 and serving in the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858. He accompanied Sir Robert Napier on his Abyssinian expedition as Assistant Quartermaster-General, 1868 and was made Quartermaster-General of the Army in India, 1875. He was Commander of the Punjab Frontier Force, 1878 and Major-General the same year. He was involved in victories over the Afghans at Peiwar Kotal, 1878 and Charasia, 1879, the occupation of Kabul, 1879, and the march from Kabul to Kandahar which resulted in the subjugation of Afghanistan, 1880. He was made Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army, 1880 and of India, 1885-1893.]. Seller Inventory # 24161
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