LS in French, signed “Napole,” one page, 7.25 x 8.75, July 23, 1811. Letter to Minister of the Public Treasury Nicolas Francois, Count Mollien, written amidst the Peninsular War. In part (translated): "I received your report from July 22. I recognize that the observations that you made relative to the 6th convoy are valuable; I am only angry that you didn't have anything done about it instead. I would have left 4 million, but at present we can't rectify it. Let me know about the current financial situation in Spain in the report about the dispatched convoys. Let me know also when we can send the 7th convoy." In fine condition. Bonaparte's Spanish Army (Armee d'Espagne) consisted of approximately 300,000 troops of mixed origin; Napoleon himself only spent about two months of the seven-year-long war in Spain, relegating control of the army to a handful of fractious generals.
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