in Paris. She had married Lazare Mayer in Lyon on 22 October 1813 and they had a daughter Eugenie in June 1814. Finette was no longer living with her husband and she and Gurwood formed a relationship. Their daughter, Adele Marisco Rodrigua Gurwood, was born in Paris in early September 1826. In 1825 Gurwood accompanied Sir Charles Stuart on a mission to Lisbon and Brazil. Before he left he thought that he had secured promotion only to find that his name was once again not in the Gazette. Finally in 1827 he accepted the appointment of deputy adjutant general in 19th Regiment of Foot with the brevet rank of lieutenant colonel and left to join the regiment in Barbados. Postings to the West Indies were notoriously unhealthy and he asked his friend Mrs Fitzherbert to look after Finette and his daughter if he should die. Literary career The General Orders Gurwood took with him to the West Indies Wellington's General Orders and Regulations evidently with the aim of producing a shortened edition. Wellington issued his Orders daily to the army and his clarity and attention to detail contributed enormously to the efficiency of operations. They covered all aspects of military life from the issue and maintenance of equipment to the care of horses and baggage animals, from men's rations to forage for animals, from the weight to be carried to the distances to be marched. In the end they amounted to seven printed volumes. Gurwood removed the many entries relating to courts martial and then re-ordered the rest under headings listed in alphabetical order, the whole being reduced to one volume. The Duke gave his permission for publication and the book appeared in September 1832. His friend Charles Arbuthnot reported that the Duke was so delighted with reading his old orders that he did nothing else all day but read them aloud. The first edition of 1000 copies sold so well that a second edition was soon in preparation. Much of the work on the General Orders was done in Portsmouth where Gurwood was posted in 1830 as Major of Brigade in the South West District. Finette and Adele, who had been living in Paris, were at last able to join him, and Fanny (as Finette was known in England) must now have been widowed because she and Gurwood were married at St Martins in the Fields on 18 November