Letters and Journals of Field-Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm... from 1799 to Waterloo, 1815 |
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| Title | Letters and Journals of Field-Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm... from 1799 to Waterloo, 1815 |
| Author | Sir William Maynard Gomm |
| Editor | Francis Culling Carr-Gomm |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1881 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 378 pages |
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