Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere NPG D34052

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Samuel William Reynolds Jr, after John Hayter

Wellington tended to be suspicious, not without reason, of the performance of his cavalry units and their commanders. Lord Combermere, however, proved a success in Spain, and was in overall command of the division that charged so brilliantly at Salamanca in 1812. 'By God, Cotton,' said Wellington', I never saw anything so beautiful in my life; the day is yours.' Wellington, however, had a firm view of Combermere's limitations; when asked why he had recommended his appointment to command a campaign in Burma, when... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.