
An Original Clipped Military Paper with Native American Indigenous Indians Red Wax Seal Written and Signed by General Sir Charles Asgill. Undated but C1780. General Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet, 1762-1823 was a career soldier in the British Army. Asgill enjoyed a long military career, eventually rising to the rank of general. He is best remembered as the principal of the so-called Asgill Affair of 1782, in which his retaliatory execution while a prisoner of war was commuted by the American forces who held him, due to the direct intervention of the government of France. Later in his career, he was involved in the Flanders campaign, the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and was Commander of the Eastern Division of Ireland during the Irish rebellion of 1803..Size is 80mm x 65mm. Condition is good. Uneven cutting and light age toning.