DAVOUT LOUIS NICOLAS: (1770-1823) Marshal of France, Duc d´Auerstaedt and Prince of Eckmuhl. Known as the Iron ...

DAVOUT LOUIS NICOLAS: (1770-1823) Marshal of France, Duc d´Auerstaedt and Prince of Eckmuhl. Known as the Iron Marshal, Davout was the only Napoleonic Marshal not to have been defeated in battle by 1815. L.S., `Le Mal. Duc D´Auerstaedt´, with four lines holograph, two pages, folio, n.p., 26th February 1809, to General Intendant Villemanzy, in French. Davout annotates his response to the left border of a letter received from General Intendant Villemanzy, dated at Erfurt on 12th February 1809, who requests Davout´s decision, forwarding also a letter from the Prince Frederick, Duke of Nassau, referring to the location chosen for a hospital which would oblige many families to abandon their houses and remain homeless. Villemanzy refers to the promise of the Minister of war to visit the location but informs that this never happened, and expects an order related to the hospital from Marshal Davout. Davout states `To return to the General Intendant who will proceed according with what he will consider fair.´ Small overall creasing, mostly to edges and corners, otherwise G Jacques-Pierre Orillard de Villemanzy (1751-1830) French General. Friedrich August (1738-1816) Duke of Nassau, Prince of Nassau-Usingen.