Daily chess puzzle: Check Mate #1

The first puzzle from Dragoslav Andric’s 1981 book “Matni Udar”.

White to play and win

Staunton v Harrison, London 1840

Solution

A fairly easy start to the book (and several of the first ones are easy, but they got harder).

1 Rg7+! Kh8 (1…Kg7 2 Bd4+ +-)  2 Bd4 etc.