Notes
Chapter 1: Boney Returns
1. Bulletin des lois de la Republique Française, Vol.10, (Imprimerie nationale, France, 1852), p.35.
2. John Gurwood [Ed.], The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G., During his Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France from 1799 to 1818 (John Murray, London, 1852), Vol.VIII, pp.1-2 (hereafter, Wellington’s Despatches).
3. Paul Britten Austin, 1815: The Return of Napoleon (Greenhill, London, 2002), pp.51-9.
4. David Hamilton-Williams, Waterloo, New Perspectives: The Great Battle Reappraised (Arms and Armour, London, 1990), p.54.
5. Reiset, Souvenirs du Lieutenant Général Vicomte de Reiset, 1814-1836 (Calmann Lévy, Paris, 1902), Vol.III, pp.74-6. The telegraph referred to was a semaphore system invented by the Chappe brothers which first began to be used in 1792 and by 1815 spanned most of France.
6. The Times, 13 March 1815.
7. Charles Angélique François Huchet comte de La Bédoyère, Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, With Copious Historical Illustrations and Original Anecdotes, Vol.II, (George Virtue, London, 1835), pp.290-1.
8. Wellington’s Despatches, pp.2-3.
9. Wellington’s Despatches, p.3.
10. The Times, 13 March 1815.
11. Wellington’s Despatches, pp.5-6.
12. The full text of the Declaration of the Powers against Napoleon can be found in British and Foreign State Papers 1814-1815,(HMSO, London, 1839), pp.665-6; August Fournier, Napoleon The First, A Biography (Translated by Margaret Bacon Corwin and Arthur Dart Russell), (Henry Holt, New York, 1903), pp.697-9.
13. Wellington’s Despatches, pp.5-6.
14. T.E. Crowdy, Incomparable: Napoleon’s 9th Light Infantry Regiment (Osprey, Oxford, 2012), pp.342-3.
15. The Times, 13 March 1815.
16. Crowdy, p.342. Saint-Denis, quoted in Alan Schom, One Hundred Days, Napoleon’s Road to Waterloo (Michael Joseph, London, 1992), pp.55-6.
17. Quoted in Austin, p.270.
18. William Pitt Lennox, Fifty Years’ Biographical Reminiscences, Vol.I (Hurst & Blackett, London, 1863), p.221.
19. David Chandler, Waterloo, The Hundred Days (Osprey, London, 1987), p.19.
20. The Times, 11 April 1815.
Chapter 2: Peace and War
1. Wellington’s Despatches, pp.17-8.
2. Wellington’s Despatches, pp. 21-3.
3. The Champ de Mai, or Champ de Mars, is a large plot of ground in front of the military school in Paris, bordered on each side with avenues of trees, which extend from the school almost to the banks of the Seine. In the early periods of the French monarchy, the general assemblies of the nation were held in this place. The objects of those meetings were to frame new laws, to lay the complaints of the people before the king, to adjust differences among the barons, and to review the national forces. It was called the Champ de Mars, because the assembly took place in the month of March. In the middle of the eighth century, Pepin transferred it to the month of May, as a milder and more convenient season. After this, it was called either the Champ de Mars or the Champ de Mai, Christopher Kelly, A Full and Circumstantial Account of the Memorable Battle of Waterloo, etc. (Thomas Kelly, London, 1817), p.28.
4. Mark Adkin, The Waterloo Companion (Aurum Press, London. 2001), p.20.
5. Frank McLynn, Napoleon, A Biography (Pimlico, London, 1997), p.610.
6. Hansard, HC Deb 22 May 1815, Vol.31, cc309-10.
7. Hansard, HC Deb 07 April 1815, Vol.30, cc417-63.
8. Jonathan Crook, The Very Thing, The Memoirs of Drummer Bentinck, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1807-1823 (Frontline, Barnsley, 2011), p.133.
9. Cavalié Mercer, Journal of the Waterloo Campaign Kept Through the Campaign of 1815, vol. I (William Blackwood, London, 1870), pp.2-17.
10. Marquis of Anglesey [Ed.], The Capel Letters, 1814-1817 (Jonathan Cape, London 1955), p.102.
11. Wellington’s Despatches, p.66.
12. Ibid, p.24. This was on 11 April.
13. Ibid, pp.26-7. This was on 12 April.
14. Ibid, pp.27-8.
15. Diary of Captain Digby Mackworth, The Army Quarterly, 1937, pp.123-4.
16. Quoted in Ian Fletcher, A Desperate Business: Wellington, The British Army and the Waterloo Campaign (Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2001), p.25.
17. W.E. Frye, After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel, 1815-1819 (William Heinemann, London, 1909), p.12.
18. Wellington’s Despatches, pp.33-4.
19. Ibid, pp.34-5.
20. Ibid, pp.38-9.
21. Ibid, pp.51-2.
22. Ibid, pp.66-8.
23. A.F. Becke, Napoleon and Waterloo (Greenhill, London, 1995), pp.6-8.
24. Wellington’s Despatches, p.89.
25. More details can be found in William Siborne, History of the Waterloo Campaign (Greenhill, London, 1995), pp.24-6.
26. Wellington, Arthur Richard Wellesley, Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington, KG, (J. Murray, London, 1864), Appendix, p.556.
27. Quoted in John Naylor, Waterloo (Pan, London, 1960), p.55.
28. Nick Foulkes, Dancing into Battle, A Social History of the Battle of Waterloo (Phoenix, London, 2007), p.119.
Chapter 3: Advance to Contact
1. Wellington’s Supplementary Despatches, op. cit., Vol.X, pp.464-5.
2. John Booth, The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny, and Quatre Bras etc. (J. Booth, London, 1817), pp.251-2.
3. The Journal of the Three Days of the Battle of Waterloo, Being My Own Personal Journal of What I Saw and of the Events which I Bore a Part, by an Eye-witness, etc. (Military Chronicle and Military Classics, London, 1816), pp.17-8.
4. La Bédoyère, pp.853-4.
5. La Bédoyère, op.cit., p.856.
6. Ibid, pp.856-7.
7. Hamilton-Williams, Waterloo, New Perspectives, p.161.
8. Baron Carl von Müffling, The Memoirs of Baron Carl von Müffling: A Prussian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Greenhill, London, 1997), p.229.
9. Wellington’s Despatches, pp.142-3. The reference here to ‘Alava’ refers to General Miguel Alava, the Spanish Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands.
10. John Booth, op. cit., pp.90-1.
11. John Franklin, Netherlands Correspondence, op. cit., p.7.
12. Von Müffling, op. cit.
13. David Miller, Lady Delancey at Waterloo: A Story of Duty and Devotion (Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2000), pp.169-70.
14. Wellington’s Despatches, pp.142.
15. Captain George Bowles, A Series of Letters to the First Earl of Malmesbury, etc. (Richard Bentley, London, 1870).
16. Wellington’s Despatches, pp.146-7.
17. Harry Ross-Lewin, With ‘The Thirty-Second’ in the Peninsula and Other Campaigns (Naval and Military Press, Uckfield, 2004), p.253.
18. The Battle of Waterloo, By a Near Observer (John Booth, London, 1815), pp.1-5.
19. David Miller, op. cit., p.170.
20. Edward Costello, The Adventures of a Soldier; or, Memoirs of Edward Costello, Narratives of the Campaigns in The Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns (Henry Colburn, London, 1841), pp.283-4.
21. Correspondance de Napoléon 1er, Tome XXXI, p.202.
Chapter 4: Quatre Bras
1. John Booth, op. cit., p.51.
2. Ibid, pp.255-7.
3. Wellington’s Despatches, p.143.
4. Becke, pp.301-2.
5. John Booth, op. cit., p.91.
6. Becke, op. cit., p.303.
7. Von Müffling, op. cit., pp.237-8.
8. John Franklin, Waterloo, Hanoverian Correspondence (1815 Limited, Ulverston, 2010), p.11.
9. John Booth, op. cit., pp.77-9.
10. A. James, Retrospect of a Military Life During the Most Eventful Periods of the Last War: Journal of Sergeant James Anton 42nd Highlanders (W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh, 1841), pp.190-5.
11. John Booth, op. cit., pp.92-3.
12. John Booth, op. cit., p.56.
13. Major S. Rudyard in H.T. Siborne, Waterloo Letters (Cassell, London, 1891), pp.230-1.
14. John Booth, op. cit., pp.56-8.
15. Letter from Major Oldfield, of the Royal Engineers, dated Paris, July 1815, quoted in Waterloo 1815: A Commemorative Anthology to be published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo by Extraordinary Editions, London in 2015.
16. John Booth, op. cit., p.90.
17. Ibid, pp.51-2.
18. Ibid, p.82. Research by Gareth Glover has indicated that this officer is either 1st Lieutenant Orlando Felix or William Chapman, or 2nd Lieutenant William Shenley, see Waterloo Archive Vol.IV (Frontline Books, Barnsley, 2012), p.197.
19. H.T. Siborne, Letters, op. cit., pp.230-1.
20. Grouchy, Mémoires du Maréchal de Grouchy, par le Marquis de Grouchy (Paris, 1874), pp.102-4.
21. French Orders and Reports from the Waterloo Campaign: Report of General Kellerman to Marshal Ney on the Charge of Guiton’s Brigade of Cuirassiers at Quatre Bras, provided by Dominique Contant, translated by Marc Moerman.
22. The Battle of Waterloo, By a Near Observer (John Booth, London, 1815), pp.233-4.
23. Becke, op. cit., pp.303-4.
24. Wellington’s Despatches, p.143.
25. J.P. Burrell, Official Bulletins of the Battle of Waterloo (Parker, Furnivall & Parker, London, 1849), pp.23-3.
26. Ibid, pp.25-6.
Chapter 5: Battle of Ligny
1. ‘Prussian Official Account of the Late Battles. Battle of Ligny, June 16’, in the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, Friday, 7 July 1815.
2. Reiche, Ludwig von, Memoiren des Königlich Preussischen Generals der Infanterie Ludwig von Reiche (Brodhaus, Leipzig, 1857), Vol.II, pp.183-4.
3. General von Ollech, Geschichte des Feldzuges von 1815 (Berlin, 1876), quoted by Peter Hofschröer, 1815 The Waterloo Campaign, Wellington, his German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras (Greenhill, London, 1998), p.120.
4. William Hamilton Maxwell, Life of Wellington (Hutchinson, London, 1899), Vol.II, pp.19-20.
5. John Booth, op. cit., pp.201-2.
6. May, Captain E.S. [Ed. & trans.], ‘A Prussian Gunner’s Adventures in 1815’, United Services Magazine, October 1891, pp.45-7.
7. La Bédoyère, op. cit., pp.397-8.
8. Quoted at: http://napoleon-series.org
9. John Booth, op. cit , pp.255-6.
10. William Seymour, Jacques Champagne, Colonel E. Kaulbach, Waterloo, Battle of Three Armies (Book Club Associates, London, 1979), p.200.
11. Ibid, pp.200-1.
12. Letter from Count d’Erlon dated 9 February 1829 to the Prince of the Moskowa, quoted in Andrew Uffindell, The Eagle’s Last Triumph, Napoleon’s Last Victory at Ligny, June 1815 (Greenhill, London, 1994), p.249.
13. Burrell, op. cit., pp.38-40.
14. This is discussed in John Codman Ropes, The Campaign of Waterloo, A Military History (Charles Scribner ’s Sons, New York, 1906), pp.164-77.
15. Wellmann, Richard, Geschichte des Infanterie-Regiment von Horn (3tes Rheinisches) No.29 (Trier, 1894) p.99, quoted by Peter Hofschröer, 1815 The Waterloo Campaign, Wellington, his German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras, p.311.
16. Anthony Brett-James, The Hundred Days: Napoleon’s Last Campaign from Eye-witness Accounts (Macmillan, New York, 1964), p.80.
17. Burrell, op. cit., p.39.
18. Ibid, pp.17-18.
19. John Booth, op. cit., p.94.
20. Burrell, op. cit., pp.39-40.
21. Franklin, Netherlands Correspondence, pp.29-30.
22. Napoleon’s Correspondence 22059: To Marshal Count Grouchy. Quoted at: www.wtj.com/archives/napoleon/nap615be.htm.
Chapter 6: Withdrawal to Mont St Jean
1. Wellington’s Despatches, op. cit., Vol.VIII, pp.147-8.
2. James Harris Malmesbury, Letters of the First Earl of Malmesbury, 1745-1820 (Richard Bentley, London, 1870), Vol.II, p.447.
3. Wellington’s Despatches, op. cit., Vol.VIII, p.144.
4. John Booth, op. cit., pp.28-9.
5. A Near Observer, op. cit., p.52.
6. Supplementary Despatches, Appendix, pp.559-60.
7. John Booth, op. cit., pp.94-5.
8. Burrell, op. cit., p.18
9. H.T. Siborne, History, Appendix XXVII.
10. Becke, op. cit., pp.385-6.
11. Burrell, op. cit., p.40.
12. Major-General Sir John Ponsonby, The Ponsonby Family (London, 1929), quoted in Anthony & Nicholas Bird Eyewitness To War (Summersdale Publishers, Chichester, 2006), pp.42-3.
13. Mercer, op. cit., pp.268-9.
14. Pontécoulant, Napoleon à Waterloo (Á la Librarie des Deux Empire, Paris, 2000), quoted in Andrew W. Field, Waterloo, The French Perspective (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2013), p.32.
15. Le Maréchal Drouet, Comte d’Erlon, Notice sur la vie militaire, écrite par lui-mȇme et dediée à ses amis. Publiée par sa famille (Gustave Barba, Paris, 1844), p.96.
16. Mackenzie Macbride, (Ed.), With Napoleon at Waterloo and Other Unpublished Documents of the Waterloo and Peninsular Campaigns (J.B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1911), pp.181-5.
17. W.A. Scott, Battle of Waterloo: or Correct Narrative of the Late Sanguinary Conflict on the Plains of Waterloo (E. Cox and Son, London, 1815), pp.127-31.
18. Supplementary Despatches, Vol.VIII, p.501.
Chapter 7: The Battle of Waterloo, Morning
1. George Wrottesley, Life and Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir John Burgoyne (Richard Bentley, London, 1873), pp.327-8.
2. Quoted in Gareth Glover, The Waterloo Archive, Volume IV: British Sources (Frontline, Barnsley, 2012), p.161.
3. Adkin, op. cit., p.93.
4. Wellington’s Despatches, pp.147-8.
5. John Booth, op. cit., p.51.
6. La Bédoyère, op. cit., (James Ridgeway, London, 1815), p.51.
7. A British Officer on the Staff, An Account of the Battle of Waterloo (James Ridgeway, London, 1815), pp.11-2.
8. Lieutenant Jacques Martin, Souveneirs d’un ex-officier, quoted in Andrew Uffindell and Michael Corum, On the Fields of Glory, The Battlefields of the 1815 Campaign (Greenhill, London, 1996), p.30.
9. David Howarth, Waterloo, A Near Run Thing, (Collins, London, 1968), p.3.
10. MacBride, op. cit., p.378.
11. General Sir James Shaw Kennedy, Notes on the Battle of Waterloo (John Murray, London, 1865), pp.100-1.
12. Saul David, All The King’s Men, The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket (Penguin, London, 2002), p.470.
13. John Booth, op. cit., p.66.
14. Burrell, op., cit., pp.40-1.
15. Somerset de Chair, [Ed.] Napoleon on Napoleon (Brockhampton Press, London, 1992), pp.256-7.
16. Wellington’s Despatches, op. cit., p.477.
17. Shaw-Kennedy, op., cit., p.131.
18. D’Erlon, Vie Militaire, pp.196-7, quoted in Hamilton-Williams, Waterloo New Perspectives, op. cit., p.261.
19. Ropes, op., cit., p.388.
20. De Chair, Napoleon on Napoleon, op. cit., pp.258-60.
21. Mackenzie Macbride, op. cit., pp. 181-5.
Chapter 8: The Struggle for Hougoumont
1. Franklin, Waterloo: Netherlands Correspondence, p.18.
2. Siborne, Waterloo Letters, op. cit., p.269.
3. Franklin, Netherlands Correspondence, p.18.
4. H.T. Siborne, Waterloo Letters, op. cit., pp.263-4.
5. Edward Sabine [Ed.], Letters of Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer (Longman, London, 1859), pp.555-6.
6. Gordon Corrigan, Waterloo, A New History of the Battle and its Armies (Atlantic, London, 2014), p.231. Commanders and their ADCs carried prepared strips of skin on which messages could be written and then rubbed out by the recipient so that a reply could be written. This remarkable survivor is held in the British Museum.
7. Mudford Papers, quoted in Gareth Glover, The Waterloo Archive, Vol.1: British Sources (Frontline, Barnsley, 2010), p.143.
8. Reproduced in Gareth Glover, Letters from the Battle of Waterloo: Unpublished Correspondence by Allied Officers from the Siborne Papers (Greenhill, London, 2004), p.176.
9. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol.XLIII, No.174, June 1965.
10. Anonymous, The Battle of Waterloo, etc. (J. Booth, London, 1817), p.67.
11. Macbride, op. cit., p.126-32.
12. H.T. Siborne, Waterloo Letters, op. cit., pp.19-20.
13. Mudford Papers, op. cit.
Chapter 9: Waterloo: The French Artillery Bombardment
1. Becke, op. cit., p.190.
2. George Simmons, A British Rifle Man: The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo (A. & C. Black, London, 1899), p.354.
3. Gareth Glover, Eyewitness to the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, the Letters and Journals of Lieutenant Colonel The Honourable James Hamilton Stanhope (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2010), pp.176, 182 & 184.
4. M. Clay, A Narrative of the Battles of Quatre-Bras and Waterloo; With the Defence of Hougoumont by Matthew Clay (Ken Trotman, London, 2006), pp.17-8.
5. Nick Lipscombe, Wellington’s Guns (Osprey, London, 2013), p.369.
6. M. Lemonnier-Delafosse, Campagnes de 1810 à 1815, Souvenirs Militaires (Imprimerie du commerce, Le Havre, 1850), p.380.
7. Mercer, Vol.I, p.297.
8. Christopher Hibbert, Wheatley Diary (Longmans, London, 1964), pp.64-5.
9. James Hope, Letters from Portugal, Spain and France (Michael Anderson, Edinburgh, 1819), p.248.
10. Peter Hofschröer, 1815: The Waterloo Campaign, The German Victory (Greenhill, London, 1999), p.76.
11. Adkin, op. cit., p.272.
12. Quoted in Martin Cassidy, Marching with Wellington: With the Inniskillings in the Napoleonic Wars (Leo Copper, Barnsley, 2003), pp.173-4.
13. Ross-Lewin, op. cit. p.270.
14. George Nugent Bankes [Ed.], The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London, 1886), pp.194.
15. W. Leeke, History of Lord Seaton’s Regiment at the Battle of Waterloo (Hatchard, London, 1866), vol.1, pp.30-1.
16. Mark Adkin, op. cit., pp.262-3.
17. A Soldier of the 71st, From De la Plata to Waterloo 1806-1815 (Frontline, Barnsley, 2010), pp.129-30.
18. Anonymous memorandum, 21 June 1815, British Library Add. 34703 folio 32.
19. William Tomkinson (Ed.), The Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns (Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1894), pp.297-8.
Chapter 10: The Attack Upon the Allied Right
1. De Chair, Napoleon Bonaparte, The Waterloo Campaign (The Folio Society, London, 1957), p.262.
2. Glover, Waterloo Archive Vol.IV, British Sources, p.177.
3. Simmons op. cit., pp.355-6
4. Léon van Neck, Waterloo illustré, Publication historique, spécialement au point de vue de la Belgique (Brussels, 1903), No.5 (2/II), pp.41-2.
5. Captain John Kincaid, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade (Boone, London, 1830), pp.333-4.
6. Quoted in Hamilton-Williams, op. cit., p.294.
7. Quoted in Stuart Reid, Wellington’s Highland Warriors, From the Black Watch Mutiny to the Battle of Waterloo (Frontline, Barnsley, 2010), p.196.
8. Quoted in Brett-James, op. cit., pp.115-6.
9. Charles Ainslie, Historical Record of the First or the Royal Regiment of Dragoons (Chapman & Hall, London, 1887), pp.158-9.
10. Source unattributed, quoted in Malcolm Balen, A Model Victory: Waterloo and the Battle for History (Harper Perennial, London, 2005), p.101.
11. Macbride, op. cit., pp.138-48.
12. H.T. Siborne, Letters, p.71.
13. John Booth, op. cit., pp.71-2.
14. Barney White-Spunner, Horse Guards (2006), p.333, quoted in David, p.475.
15. Quoted in Ian Fletcher, Galloping at Everything (Spellmount, Staplehurst, 1999), p.256.
Chapter 11: Waterloo, The French Cavalry Charges
1. Mercer, op. cit., pp.307-8.
2. John Booth, op. cit., p.51-2.
3. Sergeant Morris, The Recollections of Sergeant Morris (Windrush Press, Gloucestershire, 1967), p.77.
4. Hibbert, op. cit., p.65.
5. General Sir Evelyn Wood, Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign (Sampson Low, Marston and Company, London, 1895), p.140.
6. Quoted in David, op. cit., p.477.
7. Tomkinson (Ed.), pp.305-6.
8. “‘ The Crisis of Waterloo’ By a Solder of the Fifth Brigade”, Colburn ’s United Service Magazine, 1852, Part II, pp.53-4.
9. Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Robe RA, Waterloo, 19 June, 3 a.m., in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol XLII, no.171, September 1964.
10. H.T. Siborne, Letters, pp.233-4.
11. Journal of the Royal Artillery, Vol.81.
12. Guy Hutton Wilson, Merely a Memorandum (Librario, Kinloss, 2005), pp.120-1.
13. Rees Howell Gronow, Reminiscences of Captain Gronow (Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1863), pp.95-100.
14. Caledonian Mercury, Monday, 3 July 1815.
15. Leeke, op. cit., pp.30-1.
16. Quoted in The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers from December 1688 to July 1914 (Constable, London, 1934), p.263.
17. John Booth, op. cit., p.71.
Chapter 12: The Fall of La Haye Sainte
1. North Ludlow Beamish, History of the King’s German Legion (Thomas & William Boone, London, 1827), Vol. II, pp.456-60.
2. H.T. Siborne, Letters, op. cit., p.407.
3. Abatis (also spelt abattis or abbattis) is a term in field fortification for an obstacle formed (in the modern era) of the branches of trees laid in a row, with the sharpened tops directed outwards, towards the enemy. The trees are usually interlaced or tied with wire.
4. Heymès, Relation de la campagne de 1815, dite Waterloo, pour server à l’histoire du Maréchal Ney (Gautier-Laguionie, Paris, 1829), pp.25-6, quoted in Field, p.170.
5. Franklin, Waterloo, Hanoverian Correspondence, (1815 Limited, Dorchester, 2010), p.74.
6. Hibbert, op. cit., p.70.
7. Baron Christian von Ompteda, In The King’s German Legion, Memoirs of Baron Ompteda (Grevel, London, 1894), pp.312-3.
8. James Bogle and Andrew Uffindell [Ed.], A Waterloo Hero, The Reminiscences of Friedrich Lindau (Frontline Books, Barnsley, 2009), pp.170-2.
9. H.T. Siborne, Letters, op. cit., pp.408-9.
Chapter 13: The Arrival of the Prussians
1. Seymour et al, op. cit., p.201.
2. Ibid.
3. Quoted in Hofschröer, Ligny and Quatre Bras, op. cit., p.325.
4. Seymour et al, op. cit., pp.201-2.
5. Supplementary Despatches, op. cit., p.501.
6. Ropes, op. cit., pp.388-9.
7. Seymour et al, op. cit., p.202.
8. Quoted in Field, op. cit., p.81.
9. De Char, Napoleon on Napoleon op. cit., p.263.
10. Hamilton-Williams, op. cit., p.282.
11. Quoted in Ropes, pp.268-9.
12. Seymour et al, op. cit., p.136.
13. Victor Dupuy, Souvenirs Militaires de Victor Dupuy, Chef d’escadron de Hussards, 1794-1816 (Paris, 1892), pp.289-90, quoted in Field, op. cit., p.135.
14. Von Müffling op. cit., pp.246-7.
15. Eric Hunt, Charging Against Napoleon, Diaries and Letters of Three Hussars (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2001), p.245.
16. Von Müffling op. cit., pp.249-50.
17. Ludwig von Reiche, op. cit., pp.212-13.
18. ‘Prussian Official Account of the Late Battles. Battle of Ligny, June 16’, in the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, Friday, 7 July 1815.
19. Macbride, op. cit., pp. 181-185.
20. Hamilton-Williams, Waterloo, p.338.
21. A British Officer on the Staff, An Account of the Battle of Waterloo, pp.11-2.
Chapter 14: The Attack of the Imperial Guard
1. John Grehan, The Age of Napoleon Army Guides, No.1 The French Imperial Guard. (Partizan Press, Nottingham), p.55.
2. Michel Ney, Vie du Maréchal Ney, Duc d’Elchingen, Prince de la Moskowa (Chez Pillet, Paris, 1816), pp.179-81.
3. Kennedy, op. cit., p.127.
4. John Booth, op. cit., p.54.
5. MacBride, op. cit., p.191.
6. A British Officer on the Staff, pp.11-12.
7. Quoted in Lieutenant-Colonel Neil Bannatyne, History of the Thirtieth Regiment (Littlebury Bros., Liverpool, 1923), pp.343-4.
8. H.T. Siborne, Letters, op. cit., pp. 254-5.
9. John Booth, op. cit., pp.66-7.
10. Glover, Letters From The Battle of Waterloo, pp.186-8.
11. Ludwig E.H. Stawitzky, Geschichte des Königlich Preussischen 25ten Infanterie-Regiment (Koblenz, 1857), p.106, quoted in Hofschröer, The German Victory (Greenhill, London, 1999), p.145.
Chapter 15: The End of the Battle
1. Quoted in Kelly, op. cit., p.83.
2. Supplementary Despatches, Vol.X, p.513.
3. Kincaid, op. cit., p.343.
4. John Booth, The Battle of Waterloo, op. cit., p.104.
5. Stanhope to the Duke of York, 19 June 1815, BL. Add. 34703 folio 23, quoted in Jeremy Black, The Battle of Waterloo (Icon, London, 2010), p.149.
6. A British Officer on the Staff, op. cit., pp.11-12.
7. John Booth, The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny, and Quatre Bras, op. cit., pp.72-3.
8. A British Officer on the Staff, op. cit., p.22.
9. Hunt, op. cit., p.248.
10. G.R. Gleig, The Light Dragoon (Henry Colburn, London, 1844), pp.81-5.
11. John Booth, The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny, and Quatre Bras, op. cit., p.71.
12. Burrell, op. cit., pp.43-4.
13. English Historical Review, vol. xviii, quoted in Brett-James op. cit., pp.171-2.
14. Mackenzie Macbride, op. cit., pp.181-5.
15. Mercer, op. cit., pp.334-5.
16. John Booth, The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny, and Quatre Bras, op. cit., p.68.
17. Kincaid, op. cit., pp.226-7.
18. G.C. Moore Smith [Ed.], The Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, (John Murray, London, 1901), pp.275-6.
19. John Booth, The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny, and Quatre Bras, op. cit., p.55.
20. Hull Packet, Tuesday, 3 October 1815.
21. Ugo Pericoli, 1815: The Armies at Waterloo (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1973), p.70.
22. Quoted in Elizabeth Longford, Wellington, The Years of the Sword (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1969), p.490.
23. De Chair, Waterloo, op. cit., p.154.
24. H. Maxwell [Ed.] The Creevey Papers (John Murray, London, 1906), p.142.
Chapter 16: The Battle of Wavre
1. Grouchy to Napoleon, Sart-les-Walhain, 11.00 hours, 18 June 1815, quoted in Hamilton-Williams, Waterloo, op.cit., pp.313-4.
2. Becke, op. cit., p.250.
3. Seymour et al, op. cit., p.103.
4. Quoted in Hamilton-Williams, Waterloo, op. cit., p.355.
5. W. Hyde Kelly, The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy’s Retreat: The Right Wing of the French Army & Prussians during the Waterloo Campaign 1815 (Leonaur, 2010), p.73.
6. P. Berthezène, Souvenirs militaires de la république et de l’empire (1855), Vol.2, pp.392-3, quoted in Uffindel and Corum, op. cit., p.295.
7. C. François, Journal du Capitain François (1904), Vol.2, pp. 888-9, quoted in Uffindel and Corum, op. cit., p.301.
8. Burrell, op. cit., p.50.
9. Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, quoted in Franklin, Netherlands Correspondence, p.99.
10. Burrell, op. cit., pp.51-2.
11. Franklin, Netherlands Correspondence, op. cit., pp.98-9.
Chapter 17: The Pursuit
1. A British Officer on the Staff, op. cit., pp.11-12.
2. Philip Henry, Earl Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington 1831-1851 (Prion, London, 1998), p.182.
3. Wellington’s Despatches, op. cit., p.149.
4. Hibbert, op. cit., p.73.
5. Quoted in Brett-James, op. cit., pp.179-80.
6. Bob Carruthers [Ed.], Soldier of the Empire, The Note-Books of Captain Coignet (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2012), p.264.
7. B.H. Liddell Hart, [Ed.], The Letters of Private Wheeler 1809-1828 (Michael Joseph, London, 1951).
8. Wellington’s Despatches, op. cit., p.167.
9. Hofschröer, The German Victory, p.164.
10. R.D. Gibney, [Ed.] Eighty Years Ago, or the Recollections of an Old Army Doctor (Bellairs & Company, London, 1896), pp.223-4.
11. Liddell Hart, op. cit., pp.179-80.
12. Gleig, op. cit., p.103.
13. Quoted in David Chandler, The Campaigns of Napoleon (Macmillan, New York, 1966), p.1091.
Chapter 18: The March on Paris
1. Napoleon, Lettres inédites de Napoléon 1er Tome second (1810-15), (Léon Lecestre, Paris, 1897), pp.357-8.
2. Caledonian Mercury, Monday, 3 July 1815.
3. Gronow, op. cit., p.201.
4. Müffling, op. cit., p.251.
5. Liddell Hart, op. cit., p.176.
6. Quoted in Brett-James, op. cit., p.207.
7. Lord Broughton, Recollections of a Long Life (John Murray, London, 1909), Vol.I, pp.298-9.
Chapter 19: The Fall of Napoleon
1. Fleury de Chaboulin, Edouard, Les Vent-Jours. Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de la vie privée, du retour et du règne de Napoléon en 1815 (Rouveyre, Paris, 1952), Vol.II, p.182.
2. Müffling, op. cit., p.272-5.
3. C.W. Vane [Ed.], Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh (H. Colburn, London 1851), Vol.X, p.430.
4. Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewes Maitland, Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte, and his Residence on board H.M.S. Bellerophon (W. Blackwood, London, 1904), p.56.
5. Hampshire Telegraph, Monday, 14 August 1815.
6. Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday, 5 August 1815.
7. La Quotidienne, ou La Feuille du Jour, 19 July 1815, quoted in Henri Lachouque, The Last Days of Napoleon’s Empire (Orion, New York, 1967), pp.276-7.
8. Francis Bickley [Ed.], Report on the Manuscripts of the Late Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq., of the Manor House, Ashby de la Zouch (Historical Manuscripts Commission, vol.3, 1934), pp.308-9.
Chapter 20: The Occupation of Paris
1. Cheltenham Chronicle, Thursday, 17 August 1815.
2. Costello, op. cit., pp.297-8.
3. Ian Robertson [Ed.], The Exploits of Ensign Bakewell (Frontline, Barnsley, 2912), pp.158-9.
4. John Booth, The Battle of Waterloo, op. cit., p.104.
Chapter 21: The Fallen
1. Chandler, Waterloo, pp.171-2.
2. Gronow, pp.74-5.
3. Scott, pp.218-20.
4. Ibid, pp.221-2.
5. Quoted in Adkin, op. cit., p.324.
6. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, quoted in Adkin, ibid.
7. Charlotte Eaton, Waterloo Days (G. Bell, London, 1888), pp.30-1.
8. W.E. Frye, op. cit., p.27.
9. Extract of a Despatch from Lieutenant Colonel Leake to Viscount Castlereagh, dated Pontarlier, July 12, in London Gazette Extraordinary, 21 July 1815.
10. Mercer, op. cit., pp.316-7.
11. Quoted in Gareth Glover, Waterloo, Myth and Reality (Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2014), p.201.
Chapter 22: Survivors’ Stories
1. Christopher Kelly, op. cit., p.98.
2. George Simmons, op. cit., 366-8.
3. Edward Costello, op. cit., p.295
4. Major-General Sir John Ponsonby, The Ponsonby Family (Medici Society, London, 1929), p.43.
5. Costello, op. cit., pp.295-6.
Chapter 23: Recriminations
1. Le Moniteur, 26 July 1815.
2. Murat, Princess Caroline, My Memoirs (Eveleigh Nash, London, 1910), p.23.
3. Alan Schom, One Hundred Days, Napoleon’s Road to Waterloo (Michael Joseph, London, 1993), p.317.
Chapter 24: Travellers’ Tales
1. Quoted in R.E. Foster, Wellington and Waterloo: The Duke, The Battle and Posterity 1815-2015 (Spellmount, Stroud, 2014), pp.84 & 96.
2. Eaton, pp.30-1.
3. John Booth, The Battle of Waterloo, op. cit., pp.65-6.
4. Christopher Kelly, op. cit., p.154.
5. Edward Cotton, A Voice from Waterloo (B. Green, London, 1854), pp.38-9.
6. Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, quoted in Seymour, et al, op. cit., p.223.
Chapter 25: Honouring the Brave
1. Naylor, Appendix 1. Note that the exact amounts for each band do vary between accounts, particularly in the newspaper reports of the time.
2. Hull Packet, Tuesday, 22 August 1815.
3. Hull Packet, Tuesday, 3 August 1815.
4. Hampshire Chronicle, Monday, 17 July 1815.
5. Chester Chronicle, Friday, 11 August 1815.
Chapter 26: After the Battle Anecdotes
1. Kincaid, op. cit., pp.348-9.
2. Morning Chronicle, Monday, 18 September 1815.
3. Harold Esdaile Malet, Historical Records of the Eighteenth Hussars (William Clowes, London, 1869), p.51.
4. Christopher Kelly, op. cit., p.101.
5. Gilles Bernard and Gérard Lachaux, Waterloo Relics (Histoire & Collections, Paris, 2005), p.57. Of note is the fact that excavations carried out towards the end of the twentieth century found no human remains.
6. Christopher Kelly, op. cit., p.99.
7. Quoted in Naylor, op. cit., p.49.
8. Gareth Glover has cast doubt on the authenticity of her claim, see Myth and Reality, p.116.
9. Julian Charles Young, A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, (Macmillan, London, 1871), pp.158-9. It must be noted that the full account was not given, as there are elements of this story that are clearly incorrect and these have been omitted.
10. Gronow, op. cit., pp.204-5.
11. Chester Courant, Tuesday, 4 June 1816.
12. Ibid, Tuesday, 25 July 1815.
13. Macbride, op. cit., p.129.
14. Christopher Kelly, op. cit., p.106.
15. Lemonnier-Delafosse, op. cit., Vol.2, p.404.
16. A Near Observer, op. cit., p.113.
17. Leeds Intelligencer, Monday, 21 July 1817.
18. John Booth, Battle of Waterloo, op. cit., pp.153-4.
19. Christopher Kelly, op. cit., p.105.
20. Reproduced in Chandler, Waterloo, p.96.
21. Richard Edgcumbe [Ed.], The Diary of Frances Lady Shelley, 1787-1817 (John Murray, London, 1912), p.102.