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War Office: General Sir George Scovell, Intelligence Branch of Quartermaster General...
Catalogue reference: WO 37
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WO 37
These papers consist largely of intercepted despatches, reports and maps, captured during the Peninsular War by General Sir George Scovell, then of the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General in Spain, later Wellington's chief...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 37
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office: General Sir George Scovell, Intelligence Branch of Quartermaster General in Spain, later Chief Cipher Officer: Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1762-1922
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Description (What the record is about)
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These papers consist largely of intercepted despatches, reports and maps, captured during the Peninsular War by General Sir George Scovell, then of the Intelligence Branch of the Quartermaster General in Spain, later Wellington's chief cipher officer.
The collection includes Sir Charles Oman's correspondence with the then owners of the papers, 1908 to 1922. A diary and four other documents were added to the collection by Sir Charles Oman in 1930.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Scovell, George, 1774-1861
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- The papers were presented to the War Office by Lieutenant-Colonel G T Scovell, CBE, in 1929.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- An interesting account of the capture, deciphering, etc., of the intercepted dispatches - most of which are wholly or partly in cipher - appears in Sir Charles Oman's History of the Peninsular War, Vol. V, pp. 611-618.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14246/
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