Dukes of Cambridge Papers. Military journal of George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge; 1858-1885. Contains a journal of the Indian campaign of 1857-1858, and notes on wars in Afghanistan and South Africa, the Franco-Prussian War, and expeditions to China and Abyssinia.
Add MS 88883/3/75-93. Dukes of Cambridge Papers. Papers relating to the Kingdom of Hanover, chiefly following its annexation by Prussia in 1866; 1832-1894. George V of Hanover, who was also the 2nd Duke of Cumberland, a cousin of George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, reigned as King of Hanover from 1851 to 1866. During the Austro-Prussian war of 1866 George V refused to take up a position of unarmed neutrality which was interpreted by Prussia as an act of war. Following the Prussian occupation o...