Record

Document Reference	Bu 19/80
Title	Letter from 2nd Baron Bloomfield [J. Bloomfield], Vienna, Austria, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg, Russia; 16 July 1866.
Date	16 July 1866
Extent	2 ff
Level	Piece
Content Description	Congratulates him on his G.C.B [Grand Cross of the Bath]; states that he was suffering from the horror of war which was at the gates of Vienna; comments on the Prussian policy of aggrandisement under Bismarck and on their success in war; informs him that Lady Bloomfield was enjoying herself 'at a quiet watering place' in north Wales.
Term	honours and decorations, GCB
	unification, Germany
	military campaigns, Austro-Prussian War 1866

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA140	Bismarck; Otto E.L. von (1815-1898); Prince; German statesman and Prussian minister-president	1815-1898
NA6139	Bloomfield; Georgiana (1822-1905); Baroness; wife of 2nd Baron Bloomfield	1822-1905
NA6057	Bloomfield; John A.D. (1802-1879); 2nd Baron Bloomfield; diplomat	1802-1879
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882