RARE \"Governor of Sindh\" Charles James Napier Cut Signature For Sale

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RARE \"Governor of Sindh\" Charles James Napier Cut Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Governor of Sindh" Charles James Napier Clipped Signature. 

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General Sir Charles James Napier, GCB (/ˈneɪpɪər/; 10 August 1782 – 29 August

1853), was an officer and veteran of the British Army's Peninsular and 1812

campaigns, and later a Major General of the Bombay Army, during which period he led the military conquest

of Sindh, before serving as the Governor of Sindh, and Commander-in-Chief in

India. Charles James Napier was the eldest son of Colonel (the

Honourable) George Napier, and his

second wife, Lady Sarah Lennox, with

this being the second marriage for both parties. Lady Sarah was the

great-granddaughter of King Charles II. Napier

was born at the Whitehall Palace in London, When he was only three years old his father took up an

administrative post in Dublin, moving his family to live in Celbridge, Co.

Kildare, Ireland, within walking distance of Lady Sarah's sister, Lady Louisa

Connolly. His early education was at the local school

in Celbridge. At the age of twelve, he joined the 33rd Infantry Regiment of

the British Army in January 1794, but quickly transferred to the 89th and did

not immediately take up his commission, but returned to school in Ireland. In

1799, aged 17, he took up active service in the army as aide-de-camp to Sir

James Duff.  Napier commanded the 50th

(Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot during the Peninsular War in Iberia against Napoleon Bonaparte.

Napier's activities there ended during the Battle of Corunna, in which he was wounded and left for dead

on the battlefield. Napier was rescued, barely alive, by a French Army drummer named Guibert, and taken as a

prisoner-of-war. Nevertheless, Napier was awarded an Army Gold Medal after he was returned to British hands.

Napier

recuperated from his wounds while he was being held near the headquarters of

the French Marshall Soult and

afterwards Michel Ney. On 21 March

1809, a British sloop approached Corunna with a letter for the commandant of the city,

requesting information about the fate of Napier on behalf of his family. After

an agreement between Ney and Napier, the latter was released on a convalescence

leave at home for three months, under parole to return to Ney's quarters

wherever he was on the first of July 1809. Napier

volunteered to return to the Iberian Peninsula in 1810 to fight again against Napoleon

in Portugal, notably in

the Battle of the Côa, where

he had two horses shot out from under him, in the Battle of Bussaco, in the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro,

and in the Battle of Badajoz (1812) (the

second siege of Badajoz) in Extremadura, Spain, in which he was a lieutenant colonel in

the 102nd regiment. For his deeds at Bussaco and at Fuentes de Oñoro, Napier

won the silver medal with two

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