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283 - Letter sent by Barbu Dimitrie Știrbey, ruler of Wallachia, to the Belgian Minister of War concerning the purchase of weapons for the local militia, 17/29 June 1850, Prince of Wallachia Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei (1849–1853) addressed the Belgian Minister of War with a request to purchase arms from the Belgian government for the Principality’s native militia. The document is handwritten in black ink on a sheet of wove paper, and is signed and dated. “I would like to secure the transfer of these arms directly from the Royal Arsenal.” Addressed to General Pierre-Emmanuel-Félix Chazal, the Belgian Minister of War, the letter documents Barbu Știrbei’s personal intervention to equip the Wallachian army in the context of the Russo-Ottoman occupation following 1848. The Prince was concerned with the quality and durability of the arms, as well as the economy of the purchase. If procurement from the arsenal proved impossible, he proposed buying from Belgian factories. He requested official prices, delivery times, and the cost of rail transport to Vienna. The objective was clear: for the arms to reach Wallachia by October 1850. In the Prince’s own hand, the letter thus records the diplomatic groundwork for acquiring arms from Belgium. The scale of the programme became apparent in the following years: 3,000 soldiers equipped with percussion-cap rifles in 1851, followed by a new consignment of 1,800 rifles from Liège, received in August 1852. The results of the reorganisation led French consul Eugène Poujade to describe Știrbei in December 1852 as “the first to have organised these forces in a respectable manner.”, 29 x 21
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Letter sent by Barbu Dimitrie Știrbey, ruler of Wallachia, to the Belgian Minister of War concerning the purchase of weapons for the local militia, 17/29 June 1850, Prince of Wallachia Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei (1849–1853) addressed the Belgian Minister of War with a request to purchase arms from the Belgian government for the Principality’s native militia. The document is handwritten in black ink on a sheet of wove paper, and is signed and dated. “I would like to secure the transfer of these arms directly from the Royal Arsenal.” Addressed to General Pierre-Emmanuel-Félix Chazal, the Belgian Minister of War, the letter documents Barbu Știrbei’s personal intervention to equip the Wallachian army in the context of the Russo-Ottoman occupation following 1848. The Prince was concerned with the quality and durability of the arms, as well as the economy of the purchase. If procurement from the arsenal proved impossible, he proposed buying from Belgian factories. He requested official prices, delivery times, and the cost of rail transport to Vienna. The objective was clear: for the arms to reach Wallachia by October 1850. In the Prince’s own hand, the letter thus records the diplomatic groundwork for acquiring arms from Belgium. The scale of the programme became apparent in the following years: 3,000 soldiers equipped with percussion-cap rifles in 1851, followed by a new consignment of 1,800 rifles from Liège, received in August 1852. The results of the reorganisation led French consul Eugène Poujade to describe Știrbei in December 1852 as “the first to have organised these forces in a respectable manner.”, 29 x 21
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