86.5cm curved pipe-backed blade with spear point, etched with a crowned GIVR cypher within laurel wreaths on either side, regulation steel three-bar hilt, loose, wire bound fishskin grip, contained in its steel scabbard. This sword is connected to General Thomas William Robbins 1786-1864 Ensign 1st Foot Guards Sept 1803, Lieut 7th Dragoons May 1808, Captain May 1809, Major 7th Hussars Dec 1818, Colonel 80th Foot March 1855 and General Nov 1862, serving in Peninsula, France and Flanders and was severely wounded at Waterloo. Little is known about the association between this sword and General Robbins but two letters accompanying the sword appear to discuss this sword and that being sold in the Indian section of this catalogue as Lot 44.