TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH: 1801/11, illustrated `dépêche télégraphique´ sent during the Second Coalition War to a city mayor with dramatic text "on 30 messidor year 9 (...) the counter-admiral Durand, with only trois vessels, completely beat (...) in the Dalgezira Bay", together with 1811 Telegraphic Disptach from the Ministry of War in Paris addressed to the 5th Military Division General Commandant in Strasburg (very slight toning on the margin); fine to very fine, a very rare duo of early telegraphic dispatches
