U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
March 18-19, 2014
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1265 RUSSIA 1812 (13-16 Nov) Moscow, folded letter (four pages of text) which originated in Smolensk (13 Nov), continuing the next day; resuming on 15th November at Karitoe, continuing at Krasnoe on 16th November, written by Capt. De Castellane to his father in Paris, important text (transliterated in both French and German) "arriving from Smolensk, weather is cold but nice, Krasnoe was attacked by Cossacks, the 16th battalion of the Guard was engaged in battle with the Russians" (17 November, 1812 desperately trying to hold his army together on the retreat from Moscow, Napoleon Bonaparte found his way threatened by troops under Marshal Kutuzov. Acting immediately, he threw 16,000 men of his Imperial Guard into a surprise assault that scattered 35,000 Russians and opened the way west to the once Grande Armee), letter with arrival pmk 22 December, rare  | Price Realized $3,500.00 |
