[ Autographs ] GEBHARD LEBERECHT VON BLUCHER (1742-1819) Prussian field marshal who defeated Napoleon at Laon in 1814. L.S. "Blucher"1p tall 4to., Compiegne, Oct. 14, 1815, in German to Surgeon-Major Jean Antoine Da Silva of the Portuguese Legation declining a medical appointment as the position had already being filled. Folds, otherwise boldly signed and very good.