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 BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
 
 A POEM 
 
 BATTLE OF WATERLOO 
 
 BY WILLIAM WHITEHEAD. 
 
 With freemen, heroes, patriots, Britain swarms^ 
 
 In freedom's land they find a thousand charms ; 
 
 No country for such virtue is revered. 
 
 By all admired, by haughty tyrants fear'd. 
 
 To Britain, Afric easts her mournful eye, 
 
 Oh ! give me Freedom ! or in chains I die ! * 
 
 And nations, if oppress'd or overthrown, 
 
 Look up to her, their cause is made her own. 
 
 Her warriors fight for virtue, honour, fame. 
 
 And Freedom's Guardian well becomes her name. 
 
 As Spartans once, " Each fair reserves her charms. 
 
 And scorns to clasp a coward in her arms ; 
 
 When honour call'd, she seized the sword and shield, 
 
 Array'd in haste her husband for the field ; 
 
 And sighing, whisper'd, in a fond embrace. 
 
 Remember, death is better than disgrace. 
 
 The widow'd mother show'd her parting son 
 
 The race of glory which his sire had run ; 
 
 My son, thy flight alone I shall deplore; 
 
 Return victorious, or return no more!" 
 
 * The abolition of the Slave Trade does eternal honour to the persevering zeal of that 
 indefatigable champion in the cause of suffering humanity, Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WAITEFRIARS. 
 
 1820.
 
 
 HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, 
 
 FIELD MARSHAL FREDERICK, 
 
 DUKE OF YORK AND ALBANY, 
 
 K.G. G.C.B. &c. &c. 
 
 COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY's 
 FORCES, &C. &C. 
 
 By permission, this Poem is inscribed, as 
 a tribute of respect, to the masterly hand 
 that guides the military system ; a system 
 that, like the sun, shines proudly pre-emi- 
 nent, and overwhelms with a flood of light 
 every attempt at competition. With means 
 suited to the end desired, your Royal High- 
 ness's warriors have rushed forth to per- 
 form exploits which have astonished man- 
 kind, exalted Britain above all nations, and 
 rendered her army " the dread and ad- 
 miration of the world." The organization. 
 
 88569;
 
 VI 
 
 discipline, loyalty, and patriotism of her 
 troops, can only be equalled by their de- 
 termined valour and invincible firmness. 
 
 The brilliant talents which have been 
 displayed in the exalted situation of Com- 
 mander-in-Chief, Britain, Europe, and the 
 v^^orld have long admired ; and it is pre- 
 sumed, that succeeding generations will hail 
 with patriotic ardour the anniversary of that 
 day on which your Koyal Highness was ap- 
 pointed to the chief command. The army 
 flourishes unrivalled in the annals of war; 
 a correct history of its progressive improve- 
 ment would be the highest panegyric that 
 eoidd possibly be paid to the illustrious 
 head of this incomparable body of heroes ! 
 The value of this service can never be suf- 
 ficiently appreciated ; the benefits resulting 
 from the exercise of such talents to Britain,
 
 Vll 
 
 and to Europe at large, are incalculable, and 
 will never be forgotten until patriots cease 
 to love their country. 
 
 To explain those virtues that adorn the 
 mind, and stamp a heavenly dignity upon 
 human actions, I shall point out language 
 more powerful than that of a Demosthenes 
 an appeal to the heart of the widow, who, 
 with the fatherless, describe it in tears of 
 gratitude. The homeless also, and those 
 who had none to protect them, now nur- 
 tured under your Royal Highness's foster- 
 ing care, form a splendid mirror, that re- 
 flects immortal honour upon the founder 
 AND SUPPORTER of such a blcsscd institu- 
 tion ; which, while it provides for the off- 
 spring of the wounded soldier and departed 
 hero, affords the means of rearing youth in 
 the love of honour, virtue, and patriotism.
 
 Vlll 
 
 Methinks I see, rising from this grateful 
 band, the patriot, the statesman, the war- 
 rior ; who may probably repay the kindness 
 that has been exercised towards them in 
 the salvation of their country. 
 
 With feelings gratefully ahve, I most 
 sincerely thank your Royal Highness for 
 graciously condescending to authorize the 
 dedication of these humble hues to the 
 Commander-in-Chief of all his Britannic 
 Majesty's forces ; and hope that the faults 
 of the poem may, in some degree, be softened 
 by the sentiment and intention of the poet, 
 it being more the offspring of his heart 
 than his head ; and that perfection, where a 
 happy combination of feehng and genius 
 reside, is far from being an attribute be- 
 longing to man. The author implores that 
 he may be sheltered under your Royal
 
 IX 
 
 Highness's protection, and graciously fa- 
 voured with the indulgence so necessary to 
 the salvation of his performance. Diffident 
 of its merit, but with full confidence in those 
 exalted and generous sentiments, by which 
 your Royal Highness is invariably actuated, 
 he lays his weak endeavours at the feet of 
 his illustrious commander ; and with senti- 
 ments of the highest esteem, and with the 
 most profound respect, desires to subscribe 
 himself, 
 
 Your Royal Highness's 
 
 Most devoted, 
 
 ^ Much obliged, 
 
 Very humble servant, 
 
 THE AUTHOR.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 BATTLE OF WATERLOO. 
 
 Much, very much has been said and written 
 on this most interesting subject j but when we 
 view such an enemy as Napoleon at the head 
 of such a formidable army, and when we con- 
 sider the astonishing powers of mind as well as 
 of body called forth into action to check his 
 progress, and reflect upon the glorious result, 
 such a brilliant victory a victory that eclipses 
 hundreds which shine with no common lustre 
 in the history of ancient and modern warfare 
 we are inclined to say, as the Queen of Sheba 
 said of King Solomon, " Behold, the half was 
 not told me." 
 
 It is also necessary that the Sons of Waterloo 
 should be held up as a glorious copy for the
 
 xu 
 
 present and succeeding generations to imitate, 
 whenever their king and country may require 
 their services; for the true hero lives for his 
 country's honour, and he is too great to survive 
 her fall. Then imitate the immortal Wellington 
 and his deathless heroes, by accomplishing every 
 thing that consummate skill, and the most in- 
 trepid valour can perform. In them the British 
 character blazed in its full meridian glory. 
 Their noble achievements will enrich the 
 pages of history, and be ever gratefully re- 
 membered, till the sun from his splendid walks 
 forgets to exhilarate, with his cheering rays, 
 the grateful bosom of the smiling morning. It 
 is pleasing to the patriot to behold his country 
 teeming with heroes, ever ready to volunteer in 
 her service, and nobly resolved to conquer or 
 die. Such a nation must ultimately triumph. 
 
 With regard to the notes, such remarks as 
 have not fallen under my own immediate ob- 
 servation I have received from high authorities,
 
 Xlll 
 
 as well as collected from the most popular pub- 
 lications on this matchless victory; my desire 
 being to make it interesting to my readers. 
 But it is possible that I may have omitted of- 
 ficers who merit particular notice ; an error of 
 this or of any other kind I shall feel pleasure in 
 correcting the first opportunity. 
 
 Now my little Poem, like 2i feeble bark, is 
 launched on the dangerous ocean, where she 
 may founder against public opinion, and sink 
 " neglected and forgot,*' or probably be tossed 
 about till she meets her fate by being dashed 
 to pieces by the obdurate rock of snarling 
 criticism ; yet 
 
 Sinking, I ask, what critics can't refuse. 
 Respect my heroes^ though ye drown their muse.
 
 ** Letters at the beginning of this Poem 
 refer to names alphabetically arranged at the 
 end.
 
 BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
 
 BATTLE OF WATERLOO. 
 
 While W. from York's Alpha forms his lines. 
 And Alpha all of ancient Greece outshines ; 
 While H. in prowess soars Olympus high. 
 And gallant S. on VxcCry'^ wing can fly ; 
 While O. exists to conquer and command; 
 And E., intrepid, coolly takes his stand : 
 While M.'s renown covers the foe with dread, 
 And N. confounds him with his countless dead ; 
 While B. armipotent wins deathless fame ; 
 And P. with calmness fiercest foes can tame : 
 While I. spreads death with such resistless force, 
 And L.'s train 'd arm cuts into Victory's source ; 
 While G.'s exploits his country's name adorn. 
 And C. performs what Valour can perform ; 
 While V. can strike such paralysing blows. 
 And J. with all his usual ardour glows ; 
 While F.'s high lineage in his deeds you trace, 
 A genuine transcript of his deathless race ;
 
 Should foe overspread his land, like the swoll'n tide, 
 Ammon * (0 can stem the torrent of his pride ; 
 While D. commands the day to be his own ; 
 And K.'s firm arm its volant pow'r makes known ; 
 While Q. -|- enfeebles all who 'gainst him stand 
 Napoleon, wond'ring, view'd the wondrous band ! 
 While R. (2) is useful in the glorious cause. 
 In danger ^rw, and learn'd in martial laws ; 
 While Z. sweeps all away that 'gainst him rise. 
 And, like a flood, bears off the mighty prize ; 
 While T/s (3) bright talents with such j^rc^ assail ; 
 And Y.'s I the helmsman England will prevail ! 
 While such great characters fill ev'ry hne, 
 And like a host of Agamemnons shine, 
 Britain will blaze the first in Glory's ray, 
 Hers are the conquering heroes of the day ! 
 Such force combin'd proclaims Napoleon's fall ; 
 Old England thank the moving soul of all. ("*) 
 And should a Hector, and his^^j, employ 
 Conjoint their force, she'd heep or take old Troy. 
 
 * The reader is referred to the notes at the end of this work, 
 f Quadratic. The hollow squares invincible against every 
 attack of the enemy. 
 X His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief.
 
 But single characters we need not name, 
 For all have brave|y won immortal fame : 
 Firm links of her allies, with Britons free, 
 Make a strong chmn of powerful energy, 
 Which W. * forms, with matchless skill and care. 
 And ably marshals evVy letter there. 
 Yet proud Napoleon, Europe's galling foe. 
 Swore by Yixsjaith he'd strike the deadly blow ; 
 For this left Elba, march'd to Waterloo. 
 "Britain! Pays-bas! tremble! 'tis I -j- advance. 
 With the first cutting cuirassiers in France."" (5) 
 " Cut quickly in,\ or soon we'll cut you out ; 
 Famed Wellington this day will give a rout! 
 We burn with ardour to attend his grace, 
 Your lawless host from Freedom's land to chase." 
 With thoughts of vict'ry big, Nap view'd them o'er, 
 " Advance to do what oft you've done before, 1| 
 March hunt them down ! the game is in full view." 
 Says Wellington " we'll soon make game oi you!" 
 The chieftains led the dubious fight began 
 And mighty heroes, crowded in their van, 
 
 * His Grace the Duke of Wellington, commander-in- 
 chief on the continent of Europe. 
 
 f NapoleoH. J The Earl of Uxbridge. || To conquer.
 
 Rush'd on the foe, with iron guarded round, * 
 
 And cut a place for death in ev'ry wound. 
 
 With eagle eye, (6) th' immortal hero saw. 
 
 His ken profound Napoleon struck with awe ! 
 
 Such deep manoeuvres were beyond his scan, 
 
 Rend'ring abortive ev'ry new-born plan. 
 
 " Our country calls ; -f- I view a prompt reply 
 
 Vict'ry hangs on each arm shines in each eye ; 
 
 Lemons before such ardour must retire, 
 
 I know you"'ll conquer or with me expire ! 
 
 From your firm fronts number and strength reel hack. 
 
 Their pride will sicken when 'tis yours t' attack.'" 
 
 With martial fire see gallant Uxbridge gloWjC^) 
 
 Grasping destruction 'gainst all Europe's foe ! 
 
 Girt with undaunted firmness, he begins 
 
 To tame the eagles cut their trembling wings : 
 
 His warlike horse 'gainst proudest coursers fly ; 
 
 Each soul resolv'd to conquer or to die. 
 
 With courage^rw, see Orange \ coolly stand, 
 
 A youth in years a vefran in command : 
 
 * The cuirassiers. f Wellington. 
 
 X The Intrepid general his Royal Highness the Prince of 
 Orange, commanding the first corps of infantry.
 
 " Spoiler, come on ! thy ruin to survey ! 
 
 My troops are all prepared to pave the way ! (8) 
 
 Usurp my country I ^We thy threats detest, 
 
 The only road leads through this dauntless breast ! '* 
 
 Proud of the names a Maitland, Cooke, and Byng, 
 
 Enrich my song, while I their'glory sing : 
 
 Not all the cuirassiers, Napoleon's boast. 
 
 Could penetrate this firm intrepid host. 
 
 The squares of adamant each shock withstood, 
 
 Each wall qf steel was crimson'd o'er with blood ; * 
 
 Deep read in war, they fill'd the foe with dread. 
 
 And heap'd destruction on his perjur'd head. 
 
 Macdonell(9) and a Woodford, all admire. 
 
 Their sterling courage lights true valour's fire. 
 
 Which flames around them, till their foes expire ; 
 
 Saltoun,-f- Hepburn,! and Home || show British play, 
 
 " Britons, strike home," 's the order of the day. 
 
 * The reiterated attacks of the enemy against these in- 
 vulnerable squares only tended to thin his ranks, and prove 
 how lavish he was with his blood. "" i" 
 
 I* Lord Saltoun, grenadier guards. 
 
 X Hepburn, grei)(adier guards., ^ ^ (< 
 
 I! Home, Coldsweam guards.,y *^
 
 Rifle brigade a most appropriate name, 
 The foe by them was rifled, maim'd, and slain. 
 The field-train were alert, to duty true, 
 Nought could the firmness of this corps subdue. 
 In Barnes* true valour and deep skill combine, 
 T' adorn my verse, and would enrich each line. 
 Pozzo di Borgo, (lo) thy exalted name 
 Stands high in lists of never-dying fame. 
 And brave Alava shines a first-rate star. 
 Not eclips'd in the galaxy of war. 
 Nor could you more of gallant deeds display, 
 Than Muffling and great Vincent to portray. (^0 
 Courageous 01fermans(i2) supports his stand. 
 And leads to conquest his intrepid band. 
 The gallant Dornberg 0^) served his country's cause, 
 And AltenC^) ruled the foe by sovereign laws. 
 See dauntless Somerset (i 5) ivisely command; 
 View more than Spartans in his conqu'ring band ! 
 Methought I saw Achilles on each steed, 
 Winning immortal Valour's glorious meed : 
 
 * Major-general Sir E. Barnes, adjutant-general, being 
 wounded, the service devolved on Colonel Waters, of the 
 Coldstream guards.
 
 Their fame's too lofty for my fettered wing ; 
 
 Homer, had I thy strain, their deeds I'd sing. 
 
 A. ('6) and the sixth, in Glory's path delight. 
 
 The road to conquer know the way to fight. 
 
 And fearless Grant(i7) flew to the haughty foe, 
 
 While his brigade with equal ardour glow. 
 
 Merlen,(i8) alas! the hero often tried. 
 
 Bravely perform'd his part conquer'd and died! 
 
 Death clustering on the sword of Kelly hung, (19) 
 
 While his proud horse 'gainst strongest columns sprung ; 
 
 High in renown intrepid Kempt (20) and Pack, 
 
 Wound the ioe^Jront^ then gall his trembling back : 
 
 Their force, as flints cemented, form'd a rock, * 
 
 And crush'd the foe with each resistless shock, -f- 
 
 Chasse(20 and Detmers act the gallant part. 
 
 And baffle all the plans of Buonaparte. 
 
 Collaert(22) and his brigade dart on the foe ; 
 
 Trip (23) and his followers strike a mortal blow. 
 
 The enemy oppress'd from Lambert (24) flee. 
 
 And Ghigny(25) cuts a way to victory. 
 
 * The enemy could no more penetrate their lines than he 
 could have entered a rock of adamant. 
 
 f When they fell upon the enemy they crushed him to 
 dust.
 
 8 
 
 Brave Poiisonby(26) led on true Valour^'s store; 
 
 At his command their cannons cease to roar. 
 
 The brilliant charges of bold Vandeleur(27) 
 
 Th' astonish'd enemy could not endure. 
 
 Bylandt's (28) great feats shine in the splendid course. 
 
 His prowess great, as is his matchless force. 
 
 Vivian, (29) and Adam's (30) troops, a warlike band, 
 
 Deserved such able leaders to command. 
 
 In modest Waters* splendid talents shone, 
 
 Which found a rival in his arm alone ; 
 
 A sight of Fitzroy -f- 's half a battle won ; 
 
 The foe, who knows him, knows he'll be undone. 
 
 Halkett(3i) unmoved, stood each tremendous shock. 
 
 As surges are received by Albion's rock ; 
 
 Nor could a deluge of gigantic pow'r 
 
 Shake his firm base, or sweep his greatness lower. 
 
 The gallant Elley,(32) with a mighty force, 
 
 Like Tamerlane, pursued his fiery course ; 
 
 Whilst falling Frenchmen swell'd the rising ground. 
 
 And fell Destruction hover'd all around. 
 
 A. 
 
 * Colonel I. Waters, C. B. Coldstream guards, Adjutant- 
 general. 
 
 t Colonel Lord Fitzroy F. J. H. Somerset, K. C. B. 
 grenadier guards.
 
 The wish'd-for Prussian prince appears in view, 
 Great from defeat, his conqu*ror to subdue ! (33) 
 Inur'd to danger mighty grown in wars 
 Mars might be Blucher ! Blucher might be Mars ! 
 His aide-de-camp De Nostitz * saved the prince 
 Thanks to the firmness which he did evince. 
 When D'Aubreme (34) commands, the foe may fear ; 
 He bids ranks sink, and whole lines disappear ! 
 What mighty gen'ral now salutes my sight, 
 So well prepared so eager for the fight ? 
 'Tis laurell'd Hill If Victory attends his train ! 
 His^eats each village boy can sing in Spain. 
 Prince William (35) led on to the bold attack, 
 With Steinmitz, Pirch, Henkel, Ryssel, and Hacke ; 
 Losthin and Roeder, Jagow, Blucher J all 
 Press on the foe till lines and sections fall. 
 A soldier (36) in that martial mien you view, 
 A head to plan, an arm that can subdue ; 
 
 * See Wellington's despatches. " To the intrepid de- 
 votion of Count de Nostitz" we are indebted for the pre- 
 servation of the immortal Blucher. 
 
 f See the Duke of Wellington's despatches. 
 
 X This meritorious officer is the son of the immortal 
 Blucher. 
 
 c
 
 10 
 
 Bulow and Zeithen's warlike deeds excel. 
 
 Witness the foes that round these vet'rans fell. 
 
 Du Vivier(37) stands array'd in martial skill; 
 
 As famed De Bruyn, versed in the art to kill : 
 
 Colville(38) from duty's path disdains to stray ; 
 
 In Lyon (39) all the warrior you survey. 
 
 Kilmansegge (40) leads with an undaunted heart, 
 
 Perponcher(4i) always bravely plays his part; 
 
 And Thielmani.^'^) nobly stood by Honour's post, 
 
 'Gainst all of Grouchi/s pow'rful vet'ran host ; 
 
 The greatest gen'ral of the age to view. 
 
 Famed Picton from the land of Freedom flew ; 
 
 Array'd in pow'r, with energy he shone, 
 
 Pass'd Buonaparte, and marshals evVy one, 
 
 To join a greater gen'ral Wellington ! 
 
 With dauntless front, against a num'rous train. 
 
 Like a huge rock, his firmness did remain ; 
 
 Their proudest eagles creep beneath his horse, 
 
 While each supporter falls a lifeless corse : 
 
 But see the fatal ball against him fly, 
 
 Which he fear'd not the brave but once can die. 
 
 This mighty character was loved by all, 
 
 A greater never did, or e'er can fall ! (^3) 
 
 Such brilliant conquest soothes with magic charms. 
 
 E'en death seems easy, clasp'd in Vici^ry's arms ! (44)
 
 11 
 
 A country's cause the patriot soul doth fire, 
 
 He shouting dies, while enemies retire. 
 
 Who this great chief, before whom legions flee ? 
 
 His deeds, say Mars ! Picton or Ponsonby ! 
 
 Near death, the deathless Picton ye behold. 
 
 Wise, gen'rous, brave, prudent, yet firmly bold : 
 
 And Ponsonby, (^5) his brother in the wars, 
 
 As like himself, as both resemble Mars ! 
 
 Intrepid, firm, no valour could excel, 
 
 " How are the mighty falPn !"" These heroes^/// 
 
 A host of lancers 'gainst the latter dart. 
 
 And pierce the gallant hero in each part ; 
 
 The soldier fled not in the crimson tide. 
 
 He great remain'd, and like a Picton died ! 
 
 O'erpower'd by numbers of the murd'rous train, 
 
 Cover'd with wounds, he sunk among the slain ! 
 
 Their troops with honest vengeance, mix'd with griefs 
 
 Their foes destroy with tears embalm each chief. 
 
 Barclay* and Berkeley -f* highest deeds perform, 
 
 Hervey (46) and Co. deaden the boist'rous storm ; 
 
 * Colonel D. Barclay, C. B. grenadier guards, 
 t Colonel Sir George Henry F. Berkeley, K. C. B. Mth foot, 
 A. A. G.
 
 12 
 
 Dick* and Dalrymplej-f- warm'd by martial fire. 
 Would conqiCrors live, or Spartan-like expire ! 
 Th' artilPry's flaming tempest levels all, 
 Distinctions sink, the Emp'ror's castles fall ! 
 Bold Wood (47) and^rw Vesuvius' wrath out-blow, 
 A more than Etna's rage hurl on the foe ! 
 Death pleased with his new dress, of rockets made ; 
 Cyclops from Lemnos flew to learn the trade : 
 Grim Vulcan, jealous, views the mortal wonder, 
 Beholds, amazed, these rivals of the thunder. 
 Oh ! could my Muse muster each soldier true. 
 My real Homer's fancied could subdue. 
 Both Greece and Rome would sink to Waterloo ! 
 Had I Apollo's lyre, each deed I'd sing, 
 Immortal Valour claims th' immortal string ! 
 Their names inspire ! my Muse raise to the skies. 
 While Europe's champions I immortalize ! (48) 
 Raphael thy pencil lend, Guido thy fire, 
 Rubens, Vandyke, with magic force inspire ! 
 Waterloo's sons to paint, in living rays, 
 Like pyramids of fire their names should blaze ! 
 
 * R. H. Dick, C.B. lieutenant-colonel, 42d foot. 
 
 f L. C. Dalrymple, C. B. lieutenant-colonel, 15th hussars.
 
 13 
 
 For babes, who yet in Nature's storehouse rest, 
 
 To learn whilst with maternal care caress'd ; 
 
 Admiring would engender fond desire, 
 
 -A lid emulative warmth would light the fire ; 
 
 His nation's glory would each youth delight, 
 
 And patriotic zeal would teach to fight : 
 
 A country's cause this zeal has ever stirr'd. 
 
 From Adam^rst to patriot George the Third ! (49) 
 
 Fate usher'd the decisive moment on. 
 
 At distance clearly seen by Wellington : 
 
 *' My fellow soldiers ! now display your might ; 
 
 Vict'ry invites you to the arduous fight." 
 
 Not Grecian troops e'er knew such lofty joy. 
 
 When at the last down fell the mighty Troy : 
 
 Each from his side the flaming metal drew. 
 
 And to the charge as quick as lightning flew ! 
 
 Each heart and hand did gloriously evince, 
 
 Britain's my country, and her George my prince ! * 
 
 Brave Uxbridge and his chargers cut around. 
 
 Till cuirass'd hauteur leam'd to kiss the ground : 
 
 * If any of my readers do not rightly appreciate the in- 
 estimable privilege of being a British subject, an accurate 
 knowledge of other countries would convince him.
 
 14 
 
 Though wrapt in brass or steel, it nought avails, 
 For death they deal where'er the sword assails. 
 Ranges of cannon stop not his career. 
 Their thunders cease, as sinks the cannoneer ; 
 Their bleeding columns trembled at his name. 
 And legions^w to spread his deathless fame ! 
 Such brilliant feats gave splendour to the day, 
 And St. John's sun * drew lustre from each ray ; 
 From Vander Smissen's-f* thunder all retire, 
 No host can stand his well directed fire : 
 Famed Gneisenau]: and Vanhope|| stood the test, 
 Valour innate their ev'ry act express'd ; 
 To Glory's height the Caledonians climb, 
 Like walls ofjire blaze an impervious line ! 
 Proud of their fame, to king and country true. 
 These wonder-working heroes all subdue. 
 
 * The Sun of Victory, brightened and exalted by the 
 most brilliant achievements to the zenith of glory, there to 
 shine in cloudless majesty till nature's sun shall set in 
 darkness. 
 
 f Baron Vandersmissen, major royal horse artillery, 
 (Netherlands). 
 
 X General Gneisenau, (Prussian service). 
 
 II General Vanhope commanded a brigade of infantry, 
 (Netherlands).
 
 15 
 
 A sight of Sandy stoutest foes appal ; 
 
 They know he'll conquer, or like Samson fall ! 
 
 All of war's grammar he has learn'd complete. 
 
 Except his country's bane, the word retreat. 
 
 Undaunted Askew* firmly gave command. 
 
 While numbers fell beneath his conqu'ring hand ; 
 
 Belson-f- and Kerrison| press ev'ry way, 
 
 Adding fresh glory to the glorious day ; 
 
 Barnard II and Reynell, with a skill profound, 
 
 Follow''d by zeal, spread ghastly death around ; 
 
 Bold Manners,^ Hamilton,** and Murray -|-^ see 
 
 Excel famed heroes of antiquity ; 
 
 Campbell jl and Torrens, |||| Vigoureux and Hay^^ 
 
 By deeds have soared beyond my humble lay : 
 
 * Colonel H. Askew, C. B. grenadier guards. 
 
 t Colonel Sir C. P. Belson, K. C. B. 28th foot. 
 
 X Colonel Sir E, Kerrison, Knt. and C. B. 7th hussars. 
 
 II Colonel Sir A. F. Barnard, K. C. B. 
 
 Colonel T. Reynell, C. B. 71st foot. 
 
 % Colonel Lord Robert Manners, C, B. 10th hussars. 
 
 ** Colonel A. Hamilton, C. B. 30th foot. 
 
 ft Colonel the Hon. H. Murray, C. B. 18th dragoons. 
 
 XX Colin Campbell, C.B. lieutenant-colonel 1st foot. 
 
 III! R. Torrens, C.B. lieutenant-colonel 65th foot. 
 
 C. A. Vigoureux, C. B. lieutenant-colonel 30th foot, 
 
 %^ James Hay, C. B. lieutenant-colonel 16th dragoons.
 
 16 
 
 When brave Saxe Weimar (50) yields, he yields his breath, 
 
 Nobly resolved on nicfry or death ; 
 
 Brave Hill* and Hare,f Percy J and Thornhill|| know, 
 
 To make the haughty j^ZZ a humbled foe. 
 
 With energy innate great Nassau view. 
 
 Rallying his troops the contest to renew ; 
 
 Intrepid Beaulieu, March, ^ and all their train, 
 
 Like noble Spartans by the prince remain ; 
 
 By his example fired, all rally round 
 
 Their gallant chief, who now receives a wound ;(50 
 
 * Colonel Sir R. C. Hill, Knt. C. B. royal horse guards. 
 
 t Colonel John Hare, C. B. 27th foot. 
 
 X Colonel the Hon, H. Percy, C.B. 14th dragoons. 
 
 II Colonel William Thornhill, C. B. 7th hussars ; also 
 George Wilkins, C. B. rifle brigade ; John Slessor, 35th foot ; 
 F. S. Miller, C. B. 6th dragoons ; T. H. Blair, 87th foot ; R. 
 Lluellyn, C. B. 28th foot ; Murray, 16th dragoons ; Cutcliffe, 
 C. B. 23d dragoons ; P. A. Latour, C. B. 23d dragoons ; 
 Daws. Kelly, 73d foot; G. O'Malley, C.B. 60th foot; J. B. 
 Clarke, C. B. 2d dragoons ; Sir G. Campbell, Bart, and C. B. 
 6th foot; Hill, I. H.E. C.B. 23d foot; Elphinstone, C.B. 
 33d foot; S. Rice, C.B. 51st foot; H. Windham, 19th 
 dragoons; S. A. Goodman, 48th foot; G. Mutterbury, C.B. 
 69th foot; C. Grant, 11th foot; S. Boyse, C.B. 13th dra- 
 goons ; Hankin, 2d dragoons ; Aird, royal waggon train. 
 
 Viscount de Beaulieu, chief of his royal highness's staff. 
 
 % The intrepidity of Earl March merits particular notice.
 
 J^T 
 
 But lost no firmness in the crimson flood : 
 All, all was minor to his country's good. 
 Earl March and Villars their assistance lend ; 
 Thus brave men bravely help a wounded friend. 
 Kruse(52) led a charge till vengeful swords were found 
 Deep in that corps which gave his prince the wound. 
 The guards were calPd, true valour's sure depot ! 
 To meet Napoleon's boast, the iron-cased foe. {^^) 
 Much was expected from this fine form'd mass i 
 But ev'ry expectation they surpass ! 
 With rapid force they drive the pow'rful band ; 
 Ulysses' arm seem'd join'd to ev'ry hand : 
 The titles emp'ror king cut to the heart. 
 And left proud Nap idmselfT^Xsim Buonaparte.* 
 The seventh battalion Beige j-\- by Orange stand ; 
 Not Roman eagle flew o'er nobler band : 
 Each chief, like light'ning, darts upon the foe ; 
 Each soldier join'd to strike the deadly blow : 
 
 * The author begs to make only one observation re- 
 specting the guards, which is, that valour was never more 
 truly personified than in a guardsman, and heroic greatness 
 can never be better expressed than by repeating the names 
 of their officers. 
 
 f This intrepid battalion distinguished itself in a particular 
 manner.
 
 18 
 
 Consummate all, modcU'd by Wisdom's plan, 
 A deathless wreath to crown the mighty man. 
 The Grecian chief before the walls of Troy 
 Had not such skill, nor could such parts employ. 
 Each hero saw his plans, * Death led the way, 
 Till glorious conquest crown'd the glorious day. 
 Th' astonish'd foe confused, his lines oppress'd 
 By Blucher, Uxbridge, Bylandt, Trip, and rest, 
 By well-timed signal, legions on him rush, 
 And to the dust his dang'rous greatness crush ! 
 Eagles, submissive, their proud crests did lower. 
 While Justice frown'd at self-created power: 
 A timely, finish'd, masterly advance, 
 Repose to Europe, peace to bleeding France. (5^) 
 Amid privations British spirits rise ; (^5) 
 Self ne'er obstructs when country is the prize ; 
 Cover'd with glory, conquest cheers each heart, 
 And wounded patriots all forget the smart : 
 In VictVy's shouts the dying scarce can groan. 
 To Sisyphus such music ne'er was known. 
 Nor was he half so charm 'd when stopp'd his stone. 
 
 * It is remarkable with what precision orders were given, 
 received, and executed.
 
 19 
 
 For streams of blood and limbs lost^ none complain'd, 
 For all the greatness of the soul remain'd : (^6) 
 Like a resistless flood they sweep along ; 
 The routed foe is lost, \heit chief undoiie ! 
 Marshals out-marshall'd by great Wellington. (5?) 
 Stupendous mind ! from what exhaustless store 
 Burst forth such finished plans ? none could do more. 
 The wisest gen'ral would pursue such course ; 
 The scheme embraces all perfection's force ! 
 The galled eagle trembles at such might, 
 And with Nap's grandeur takes a lasting flight. 
 Canning, (58) to all that 's truly great allied, 
 Perform'd a brilliant part, and nobly died. 
 Renown'd Patroclus we in Ferrier(59) see; 
 None braver troops e'er led to victory ; 
 They mourn their leader welt'ring on the ground, 
 With shouts of vict'ry calm each bleeding wound : 
 And Howard fell : t' attempt his worth were vain : 
 I'll mourn his loss let Byrons sing the strain. 
 That struggle's great which makes a Hodge^ expire; 
 I sing it not ; 'tis touch'd by CAMPBELL's-f* lyre. 
 
 * Major Hodge, 7th hussars, who fell in an attack against 
 the Polish lancers. 
 
 t On the 25th of May, 1816, Thomas Campbell, Esq. 
 wrote some lines on the commemoration of Burns, the famous
 
 20 
 
 And noble Gordon (60) too, a nation's pride, 
 
 Lived but to conquer conquer 'd, and then died. 
 
 His deeds will live till suns forget to shine, 
 
 While bravery 's loved, and virtue 's held divine ! 
 
 When pillars, busts, and monuments shall fall, 
 
 Gordon, thy name shall be revered by all. 
 
 Gen'rous DelancyC^O for his country died. 
 
 Her cause held dearer than life's purple tide. 
 
 Great Brunswick (62) fought with heart firm as his steel : 
 
 The French admired Oh ! what his friends mustjeel! 
 
 Rest in blest peace ! thy foes have ceased to boast : 
 
 They flying fell, thou nobly at thy post. 
 
 Curzon(63) the hero fell, of genVous mind: 
 
 Copy his likeness, and you'll bless mankind. 
 
 Can such great souls sink in eternal sleep ? 
 
 A Nero laugh, while Virtue 's forced to weep ? 
 
 Blot not Heav*'n''s justice with such grov'ling strain. 
 
 For Caesars die immortal life to gain. 
 
 Could I sing all the exalted worth there found ; 
 
 Point out each bleeding patriot on the ground ; 
 
 Scotch poet, to aid the subscription for his monument at 
 Dumfries, in which he feelingly introduces the death of this 
 highly meritorious officer, to which the reader is referred. 
 They need no comment, Mr. Campbell wrote them.
 
 21 
 
 Raise each brave hero faU'n, display his might ; 
 Open each noble soul to public sight ; 
 Humanity would melt, vet'rans would weep, 
 And tears would down Bellona's visage creep : 
 But those proud arms by whom such heroes fell 
 Rung a sure peal for their own funVal knell ; 
 Embodied Valour sweeps the martial plain. 
 While Britain's sons avenge brave Britons slain ! (6-*) 
 Oh ! for Homeric fire, a Virgil's lay, 
 Bradford* and Abercrombie-f* to portray. 
 
 * Colonel Sir Henry Bradford, K. C. B. gr^adier guards, 
 acting quarter-master 'general. 
 
 t Colonel the honourable A. Abercrombie, Coldstream 
 guards, acting quarter-master general. 
 
 Also Lieutenant-colonels B. I. Paul, C. B. 12th dragoons; 
 Muller, German legion ; Baron Reizenstein, C. B. German 
 legion ; Leach, rifle brigade ; Egerton, 84th foot ; Chalmers, 
 57th foot; Dalmer, 23d foot; Willson, C. B. 4th foot; 
 Keightley, 23d foot; Miller, C. B. rifle brigade; Beckwith, 
 C. B. rifle brigade ; Hamilton, 2d Ceylon regiment; Fullerton, 
 C. B. rifle brigade; Campbell, C. B. 42d foot; Petersdorf, 
 C. B. German legion ; Bouchier, 22d dragoons ; Irving, 28th 
 foot ; Grant, 23d foot ; Keyt, C. B. 51st foot ; Sir J. Hartman, 
 K. C. B. German legion; Hartwig, C. B. German legion; 
 Brown, C. B. 79th foot ; Wissell, C. B. German legion ; 
 Radcliffe, 97th foot ; Browne, C. B. rifle brigade ; Taylor, 
 10th dragoons; Arguimbau, C. B. 1st foot; Childers, 11th 
 dragoons ; Smith, C. B. rifle brigade ; Calvert, 72d foot ;
 
 2t 
 
 Britons are still, as in the days of old, 
 
 Firm in the plan, and in the action hold ; 
 
 In past and present, sterling worth does shine. 
 
 And where 's the foe Xhejuture dare decline ? 
 
 *" Sure Reason slept when Fancy plann'd the war, 
 
 'Gainst a descendant of the mighty Czar ! 
 
 A worthy monarch is the land's defence ; 
 
 No tyrant arm can drive his people thence. 
 
 Country depopulate, or cities raze. 
 
 While Alexander's high-bom virtues blaze : 
 
 Stavely, C. B. staff corps ; Wylly, C. B. 7th foot; Evans, 5th 
 West India regiment; Davies, chasseur brigade; Walker, 
 C.B. 54'th foot; honourable G. L. Dawson, C. B. 22d dra- 
 goons; Evatt, 2d German battalion; Marlay, C. B. l^th 
 foot; Stretton, ^Oth foot; Darling, 2d German battalion; 
 Damaresq, 9th foot ; Elphinstone, -ith West India regiment ; 
 Vernor, 12th foot; Belli, 16th dragoons; Rowan, 52d foot; 
 Walsh> 91st foot; Fredericks, German legion; Macdonald, 
 Malta regiment; Bailey, 30th foot; Jones, C. B. 71st foot} 
 Reh, C.B. German legion; Parkinson, 11th foot; Lutter- 
 mann, German legion ; Bussche, C. B. German legion ; 
 Robertson, C.B. German legion ; Baron Gruben, C.B. Ger- 
 man legion ; Crauchenberg, C. B. German legion ; Cockrane, 
 15th hussars; Shaw, ^Sd foot; Lord Hill, 2d dragoons; 
 Kelly, 54'th foot ; Macalister, 35th foot ; Duke, royal horse 
 guards. 
 
 * Lord Uxbridge to Napoleon.
 
 m 
 
 Such tow'ring beacons faithful hearts surround ; 
 
 'Sojbe can reap where patriots till the ground;: 
 
 And conquVing Britons shine in ev'ry age ; 
 
 Their glory flames in each, historic page ! 
 
 Of St. Jean d' Acre did no trace remain ? 
 
 Had you forgot famed Wellington in Spain .? 
 
 Why risk your all to gain a lasting stain ? 
 
 In field, on ocean, battVy, and the storm, 
 
 True Britons great Britannia's name adorn !" (^5) 
 
 * " That fatal journey I shall bear in mind ; 
 
 The sword of Justice, rain, snow, fire, and wind, / 
 
 Cross'd all my purposes. A pow'r divine, ? 
 
 With Russia leagued, against me did combine ; 
 
 And Britain w;as a thorn that galPd my side, 
 
 Obscured my views, and check'd my tow'ring pride : 
 
 'Twas British firmness that disturbed my peace; 
 
 The rest I, managed with a dext'rous ease : 
 
 I feard she'd quench my glory in the end; 
 
 Nought her colossal strength could ever bend. 
 
 Britain 's a garden cultured by my foes ; 
 
 In York's dread nurs'ry my destruction grows. 
 
 * Napoleon.
 
 ^^ 
 
 T' amuse, my boats were form'd, not to invade ; 
 Some nations whisper 'd that I was afraid : 
 To cover truth I plann'd this see-saw shade- 
 Britain t' invade ne'er enter'd once my brain ; 
 I'd sooner upon Russia's snow campaign : 
 Safe place for landing I could ne'er explore, 
 Vox free-born Britons guard the sacred shore. 
 The English would dispute each foot of land ; 
 A Welshman fights while he 's a foot to stand ; 
 And 'gainst all Ireland what could I have done. 
 When one has ruin'd me her own dear son ? 
 If I can rise again I'll not there go ; 
 I've found ^00 tough a hit at Waterloo. 
 I'd not for worlds the land of Scots explore ; 
 If landed, I could never leave that shore : 
 They fight like lions, though their blood 's half spilt ; 
 Oh ! save me, save me, from that horrid hilt ! " (66) 
 * " If kilt with" dread does almost split your skull, 
 How could you think of conqu'ring all John Buli, ? 
 Such mighty capitals compose the name, 
 English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh you know their fame : 
 
 * General Sir Edward Barnes.
 
 25 
 
 The long, the strong, the all-together pull. 
 
 Make what have pulPd you down matchless John 
 
 Bull !" 
 *" I see my error, but, alas ! too late ; 
 To fight 'gainst Albion 's to contend with fate ; 
 With skill and nervous arm she plays defeat, 
 Unnerv'd I dance, I know not how, retreat. 
 To tune the hero, by YorFs band play'd true 
 To music, set by Conquer-^ and Pursue ; X 
 Too strong, too keen, confused in the Scotch reel, 
 They strike us Jlats, but play the sharps I feel ; 
 'Gainst me is thrown th' alarming fatal die, 
 Waterloo, II Orange, Blucher, play too high. 
 My sun is set, Wellington shines the star, 
 Hark ! how he cheers his " thunderbolts of war ! " 
 My cuirassiers, on whom my hope did fix, 
 Now " lie inglorious" on the banks of Styx ; 
 My cannoneers extinct, a ghastly show. 
 Cursing me, sink down to the shades below ; 
 
 * Napoleon. 
 
 t Wellington. 
 
 X Blucher. 
 
 II Duke of Wellington, Prince of Waterloo, &c. &c.
 
 m 
 
 My infantiy are wand'ring on the shore, 
 
 Till Charon's busy boat can row them o'er, 
 
 And my imperial guard are now no more : 
 
 Legions of ghosts flit o'er the mangled dead. 
 
 Invoking vengeance on my guilty head. 
 
 Oh, Waterloo ! first view'd with mind elatCy 
 
 This blow has changed, and seal'd my changeless fate I 
 
 My grandeur shatter'd, lower'd my lofty fame. 
 
 And paralysed all this tott'ring frame : 
 
 Once Europe's fate was fetter'd to my throne. 
 
 Kings I set up ! * and when I would put down, 
 
 Made monarchs shrink, ruled Rulers with a nod^ 
 
 And govem'd nations with a smile or rod ; 
 
 Exacted what I pleased from foe or friend, 
 
 Britain except, there all my projects end. 
 
 Oh England ! had not pride absorb'd my sense, 
 
 I might have seen thy great pre-eminence : 
 
 Thy ceaseless zeal fill'd Europe with surprise. 
 
 Thy ev'ry motion did attract all eyes ; 
 
 Amazed they pause, which to admire the most. 
 
 Thy perseverance firm, or matchless host." 
 
 * Whom he would he set up, and whom he would he 
 put down." Dan. chap. 5, ver. 19.
 
 a? 
 
 * " A cause that's just Great Britain ne'er assails, 
 
 And justice 'gainst oppression oft prevails ; 
 
 Our constitution is a pile of right, 
 
 Where Justice, Wisdom, Faith, and Truth unite : 
 
 The wond'rous fabric proves " perfection's art,'' 
 
 And there may every Briton play his part." 
 
 "f- " Wellington's plans raise him to highest fame. 
 
 While I lose army, kingdom, pow'r, and name/' 
 
 J " Justice, retributive, sounds from the skies, 
 
 'Tis just you Jail, and just the just should rise : 
 
 Your prostrate eagles ne'er again can fly. 
 
 But changed to screech owls, howl their dismal cry !"- 
 
 Ij " Must leave my sJceletons, or meet my doom ; 
 
 June eighteenth sinks my grandeur to the tomb. 
 
 Oh Belgium ! must I reign o'er thee no more? 
 
 No plague so great in all Pandora's store, 
 
 Except the plague of plagues, the vexing elf. 
 
 To find a greater gen'ral than mi/self!'^ 
 
 * General Lord Hill. 
 
 f Napoleon. 
 
 X His royal highness the Prince of the Netherlands. 
 
 II Napoleon.
 
 *" Why so confused ? why so erroneous stray? 
 
 \i Lacki^^) you want, this is the nearest way? 
 
 How fare your spirits ^ since you've got no corps f 
 
 Why leave your army weltVing in their gore ? 
 
 Versed in war's fate, a general complete 
 
 Is modest conqu'ring, great in a retreat." 
 
 "f " Oh, Lack, Pays Bas, my army and my home ! 
 
 I thought the Orange House I could dethrone. 
 
 And on its ruins firmly fix my own. (6^) 
 
 This day a mirror forms ; as if divine^ 
 
 The foe name action all most glorious shine ; 
 
 When turn'd towards me, reflects to public gaze 
 
 My fail as lasting as my foul disgrace." 
 
 I heard a brave Hibernian soldier say, 
 " I've solved th' enigma, 'tis as clear as day ; 
 My neighbour said, ' Death is the soldier's life ;' 
 'Tis sure past contradiction, and all strife : 
 Laugh not, nor us hrave boys be teasing yet ; 
 Was you a worthy in our alphahet^ 
 
 * His excellency General D'Aubreme, now secretary at 
 war. 
 
 t Buonaparte.
 
 You'd fight for king (God bless him), land, and laws, 
 
 And not stay shulking, raking up our flaws. 
 
 But join the army; then you'd plainly see 
 
 Death to the foe is glorious life to me. 
 
 Another thing I'll teach you to explore. 
 
 If you'll be after teasing us no more ; 
 
 As you're an author of some eminence, 
 
 You'll save much time, and plaguy great expense ; 
 
 Volumes write, not 'bout heroes and their land, 
 
 Multum in parvo, give them off at hand, 
 
 Say the dear clod, and all wiU understand." 
 
 * " True, as in Wellington great parts combine, 
 
 I've witnessed in each latitude and clime ; 
 
 Have seen you bleed upon the martial field, 
 
 Half dead with wounds, but too much life to yield." 
 
 -f- " Sandy, desist, I know you, boy, so well, 
 
 No hero can your own dear self excel; 
 
 So much you've done I'm puzzled to begin, 
 
 For braver soul 's not wrapt in mortal skin. 
 
 Word hero from vocab'lary erase, 
 
 And I'll be bound I can supply the place ; 
 
 * A Highland soldier, 
 f Hibernian soldier.
 
 Nor with my hieroglyphic spoil the sense, 
 
 *T would shine unrivall'd in intelligence ; 
 
 The noblest substitute, all tongues confess, 
 
 Undaunted Sandy in his Highland dress."* 
 
 *f- " You all are hrave^ and * all together pull,' 
 
 Which makes us really what we are John Bull. 
 
 For those who hra.\e\y Jell upon the plain, (69) 
 
 Rise monument of never dying fame ! (^o) 
 
 Fame hands from east to west, from pole to pole, 
 
 And will, till years and days forget to roll ; 
 
 T^heJaWn, and those who parried o^ death's dart. 
 
 Are deep engraven on each Briton's heart." 
 
 Lord Edward \ led, and hosts before him fell. 
 
 Each active sword a cutting tale could tell ! 
 
 Colborne || and Brooke, Douglas ^ and Thackwell, ** 
 
 hail; 
 Brav'ry like yours needs only to assail : 
 
 * In which he always dresses the enemies of his country. 
 
 t G. P. R. 
 
 X Major-general Lord Edward Somerset. 
 
 II Colonel Sir John Colborn, K. C. B. 52d foot. 
 
 Lieutenant-colonel Francis Brooke, C. B. 14th foot. 
 
 ^ Lieutenant-colonel Niel Douglas, C. B. 79th foot. 
 
 ** Lieutenant-colonel J. Thackwell, 15th hussars.
 
 ai 
 
 Clifton,* Dance,f Sleigb,| Hill,|| Drake, and Quentin^ 
 
 bold, 
 In crimson lines cut deep, their valour told ; 
 Laureird Macdonald, Campbell, ** girt with fame, 
 Portarlington, with sword of vivid flame ; 
 Wildman,ff Fitzroy,JJ Townshend, || || and Stuart 
 
 true, . '>sHt*?if M.-vr1^"nP:0 
 
 Brave Campbell, ^ ^ Rooke, *** and Stanhope, -f-f-f- 
 
 all subdue. 
 X\X " Boney, adieu ! you're not inclined to stay. 
 But run to live not fight another day ; 
 
 * Colonel A. B. Clifton, C. B. royal dragoons, 
 f Lieutenant-colonel Dance, 2d regiment life guards. 
 X Colonel J. W. Sleigh, C. B. 11th dragoons. 
 II Major Clem. Hill, royal horse guards (blue). 
 Major W. T. Drake, royal horse guards. 
 ^ Colonel G. Quentin, C. B. 10th hussars. 
 ** Captains Campbell and Macdonald, 92d regiment, 
 ff Lieutenant-colonel Wildman, 7th hussars. 
 X X Lieutenant-colonel Lord Charles Fitzroy, 55th foot. 
 [Ill Colonel Hon. H. G. P. Townshend, grenadier guards. 
 Hon. W. Stuart, C.B. colonel, grenadier guards. 
 %% Colonel Sir C. Campbell, K. C. B. Coldstream guards. 
 *** Lieutenant-colonel W. U. Rooke, C. B. 3d foot 
 guards. 
 
 Iff Lieutenant-colonel the Hon. J. Stanhope. 
 XXX Prince Blucher to Napoleon. ;, '.
 
 m 
 
 Your oft tried sword, though long, is found too brief. 
 
 To measure (7i) with Britannia's conqu*'ring chief; 
 
 Too short each marshal's you sent out to Spain, 
 
 The sword not form'd friend Wellington to tame." (72) 
 
 * " Your eagles ne'er o'er finer vet'rans flew ; 
 
 Now in disorder lost, a motley crew 
 
 Of fugitives pursued, on all sides gored 
 
 By the keen Prussian and the Brunswick sword. (73) 
 
 T' appease his manes, where loved Brunswick bled, 
 
 Was raised a monument of perjured dead." (74) 
 
 f- " Your empire's lost hope sick army undone. 
 
 In learning English, taught by Welhngton ; 
 
 Your steel-girt lungs lie gasping for their breath. 
 
 Each accent wounds, each emphasis is death. 
 
 A dreadful lesson, wisdom learn to prize, 
 
 And " covet not," your former acts despise ; 
 
 If useful, and content with what's your own. 
 
 You're greater than upon another s throne ! 
 
 But now as your romantic grandeur ends. 
 
 Take the last farewell of your dying friends ; 
 
 Or haste to Brussels, sumptuously to dine, (75) 
 
 And o'er your loss more leisurely repine." 
 
 * General Comte de Bylandt. 
 t General Trip to Napoleon.
 
 S3 
 
 *" But if your appetite's with army lost, 
 Let 's reckon, if you dare to count the cost, 
 For stores and army ta'en, legions destroyed, 
 For iheei }- who suff 'ring Europe's peace annoy 'd. 
 And all thou hadst, take our receipt in full, 
 
 Signed Wellington, 
 
 Okange, 
 Blucher, and 
 John Bull." (76) 
 . . ..;.. ^.>"^ 
 
 * Sir Harry Calvert, adjutant-generaL A correct detail 
 of the military secretary's and the adjutant-general's de- 
 partments would be the highest panegyric that could be paid 
 to those distinguished characters, Sir Henry Torrens and Sir 
 Harry Calvert. Too much praise cannot be bestowed on 
 those gallant officers composing the personal staff of his 
 grace the Duke of Wellington, We have to regret that 
 every hero in this intrepid band was either killed or wounded. 
 
 f In effect Napoleon might be considered as already 
 taken.
 
 94 
 
 OPENING THE DESPATCHES. 
 
 See York exulting in his country's weal, 
 His genVous bosom ever prone to feel. 
 He read, alternately with Jcg/ and pain. 
 What glory won ! what mighty heroes slain. 
 The *' tidings glad*' with pitying tear did tell. 
 For Brunswick, Ponsonby, and F'lcton Jell,* 
 Pride of the army, father of the brave ! 
 Loves ev'ry hero ! each would die to save 
 His loved commander. Britain well may boast. 
 No marshal ever marshall'd such a host.*f- 
 
 * With others who were slain, but whose memories will 
 ever live in the bosom of his royal highness, who regards 
 every branch of his army with that tender solicitude which 
 a parent feels for his children. 
 
 f By the paternal care of the royal Duke the army has 
 been raised to the very pinnacle of glory, and flourishes un- 
 rivalled in the annals of war. Had his royal highness been 
 supplied with an efficient force of British troops, ordnance, &c. 
 in the years 1793 and 1794, millions of lives and of property 
 might have been preserved from destruction. Each indivi- 
 dual in the army, of whatever rank, the author conversed 
 with at the time, had he been possessed of the whole of 
 " Plutarch's Lives," would have devoted them all voluntarily 
 in the service of the commander-in-chief; and it is presumed 
 the same attachment noxjo exists with unabated ardour.
 
 NOTES.
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Note 1. 
 
 His royal highness Frederick, Prince of the Netherlands, 
 by his firmness proved himself to be a genuine branch of the 
 illustrious House of Orange. 
 
 It may be acceptable to our readers if we give some ac- 
 count of those battles, &c. which preceded this great and 
 glorious day. 
 
 Napoleon, when he entered the Netherlands, is reported 
 to have had 130,000 men, but other troops joining on the 
 12th with him, was increased to about 150,000, and was 
 divided into five corps of infantry and four of cavalry, and 
 was accompanied by about 300 pieces of artillery. The 
 cavalry, as fine a body as ever entered a field, consisted of 
 25,000 men. 
 
 Prince Blucher, with about 80,000 Prussians, occupied 
 Charleroi, Givet, Namur, and the left bank of the Sambre. 
 General Bulow, with 30,000 more, was cantoned in the coun- 
 try between Liege and Hainaut. 
 
 At Avesnes, on the 14th, Buonaparte issued the following 
 proclamation, which was read at the head of every regiment : 
 
 " Soldiers ! This day is the anniversary of Marengo and 
 of Friedland, which twice decided the destiny of Europe. 
 Then, as after Austerlitz, as after Wagram, we were too
 
 38 
 
 generous ! We believed in the protestations and in the oaths 
 of princes, whom we left on the throne. Now, however, 
 coalesced among themselves, they would destroy the in- 
 dependence and the most sacred rights of France : they have 
 commenced the most unjust of aggressions. Let us march to 
 meet them. Are they and we no longer the same men ? 
 
 " Soldiers, At Jena, against these same Prussians, now 
 so arrogant, you were one against three, and at Montmirail 
 one against six. 
 
 " Let those among you who have been prisoners of the 
 English detail to you the hulks, and the frightful miseries 
 which they suffered. The Saxons, the Belgians, the Hano- 
 verians, the soldiers of the confederation of the Rhine, 
 lament that they are compelled to lend their arms to the 
 cause of princes, the enemies of justice and of the rights of 
 all nations. They know that the coalition is insatiable. After 
 having devoured twelve millions of Poles, twelve millions of 
 Italians, one rnillion of Saxons, and six millions of Belgians, 
 it would devour the states of the second rank of Germany. 
 
 " The madmen ! a moment of prosperity blinds them : the 
 oppression and humiliation of the French people are beyond 
 their power. If they enter into France they will there find 
 tiaeir tomb. 
 
 " Soldiers, We have forced marches to make, battles to 
 fight, dangers to encounter ; but with steadiness, victory will 
 be ours. The rights, the honour, the happiness of the 
 couatry will be reconquered ! 
 
 ** To every Frenchman who has a hearty the moment is 
 arrived to conquer or perish. 
 
 (Signed) " Napoleon. 
 
 (True ffpy) " Marshal I)uke of Dalmatia, 
 
 " Major-general."
 
 The army of French veterans replied to this energetic 
 address with one universal shout, and eagerly demanded to 
 be led to the combat. A great proportion had returned 
 from foreign prisons, and were anxious to avenge their former 
 disgrace. 
 
 On the 15th, at break of day, the advanced posts of the 
 Prussians were attacked near Thuin, and being overwhelmed 
 by superior numbers, were repulsed as far as Marchienne- 
 au-Pont. In this retreat they suffered considerable loss 
 from the numerous cavalry of the French. At Marchienne 
 and at Charleroi they made a stand, and attempted to de- 
 fend the passage of the Sambre ; but being closely pressed, 
 they were unable to destroy the bridges. Napoleon com- 
 manded the attack on Charleroi in person, and the town was 
 taken and retaken several times, but about noon the French 
 established themselves in it, having already advanced about 
 15 miles. 
 
 The second French corps, commanded by Marshal Ney, 
 which had effected its passage at Marchienne, proceeded 
 towards Gosselies, on the road to Brussels, and pushing 
 forward a strong advanced guard, repulsed a regiment of 
 Belgians posted at Fresn^. 
 
 The third corps continued the pursuit of the Prussians, 
 who retreated in good order to Fleurus. 
 
 Having here received considerable reinforcements, and 
 Blucher now commanding in person, it was determined to 
 retreat no further. The French made many impetuous 
 attacks on this position, and the contest was continued with 
 alternate and equal success until sunset, when the French 
 retired towards Charleroi, where Napoleon established his 
 head-quarters, and Blucher occupied his former position 
 near Fleurus.
 
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 The result of these vai-ious engagements was decidedly 
 in favour of the French more than a thousand prisoners fell 
 into their hands, the passage of the Sambre was accomplished, 
 and Charleroi was gained, with its valuable magazines. But 
 the principal advantage was that the campaign had opened 
 with eclat. The soldiers were induced to believe that they 
 were once more invincible. Their former confidence in their 
 leader returned : they were again ready to follow him to the 
 cannon's mouth, and they confidently anticipated the most 
 favourable results. 
 
 Napoleon, as usual, profited as much as possible by this 
 partial success. The most exaggerated statements of it 
 were published. The prisoners were hastily collected and 
 marched in columns on the routes by which the other corps 
 were advancing. They were received with transport by the 
 troops in the rear ; shouts of " the Emperor for ever ! " rent 
 the air, and the soldiers hastened forward to share in the 
 glory of their comrades. 
 
 On the 16th the brigade of Sir James Kempt was the first 
 which was warmly engaged. For some time they succeeded 
 in arresting the progress of the enemy in the centre. The 
 foe, however, redoubled his efforts, brought forward fresh 
 troops, and made a furious attack against this brigade, both 
 with cavalry and infantry. The royals and 42d, who were sent 
 to their support, came in for their full share of the business, 
 and suffered severely. The ^^th was next ordered to that 
 point. The enemy advanced, conceiving he could sweep all 
 before him : he was mistaken ; the invincible 92d regiment, 
 which was posted behind a ditch on the right of the road 
 from Brussels to Fleurus (and in the centre of which band 
 of heroes, as a " rock of defence," the commander-in- 
 chief was stationed), stood ready to receive them. The
 
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 Brunswickers having been compelled to give way, they al- 
 lowed to pass, when they opened such a fire upon the enemy's 
 cavalry as stretched them on the ground in quick time, and 
 compelled the remainder to retire in disorder ; and not only 
 so, but the repulse of the cuirassiers, and the great number of 
 wounded carried to the French rear, created alarm, con- 
 fusion, and flight, among the numerous attendants of their 
 army. About 4 o'clock, being reinforced, they returned to 
 the charge, and, by another furious attack, endeavoured to 
 gain the right of the British position. Again he was driven 
 back with great loss. 
 
 The 79th regiment charged through and through the 
 French line, and afterwards returning to its former position, 
 repulsed the repeated and most furious attacks of the enemy. 
 It suffered severely; its commanding officer, the brave Co- 
 lonel Douglas, who had been previously hit by three balls, 
 was severely wounded in the knee, but still the hero re- 
 mained at his post. 
 
 The conduct of these regiments was highly meritorious. 
 At one time the gallant 42d regiment was almost over- 
 whelmed by the fury of the torrent which rolled against it. 
 They opened to right and left, the cuirassiers went through 
 but they never returned they were cut to pieces. In such 
 a desperate conflict, as may naturally be supposed, the 42d 
 suffered severely. The cuirassiers came so close that they 
 cut down some of the officers with their swords. The gallant 
 Colonel Macara, and many other valuable officers, were at 
 this time killed and wounded, and also a great number of 
 men. The 92d regiment distinguished itself in a particular 
 manner. This regiment, led on by Colonel Cameron, per- 
 formed prodigies of valour. The 32d, 33d, and -i^th also
 
 nobly signalized themselves. The 28th charged at one time 
 on three sides at once ; two sides were opposed to the 
 cuirassiers, and one to the lancers; both they repelled. 
 Afterwards they advanced against a column of infantry, 
 drove them back, and, after deploying, charged in line and 
 cleared the whole front of skirmishers. 
 
 Through the volumes of smoke the enemy was soon seen 
 again advancing with all his force for another struggle. As 
 they came near, the fire of the artillery slackened, and the 
 bloody struggle began. The moment was pressing. 
 
 The Duke, who stood with the 92d regiment, turned to 
 them and said with energy, " 92d, you must charge these 
 fellows." The order was cheerfully and instantaneously 
 obeyed. They rushed against the black battalion with an 
 ardour nothing could resist. General Barnes had led them 
 on : " Come on, my old 92d," were his words. The regiment 
 performed wonders ; but a volley from the right killed the 
 brave Colonel Cameron : the gallant Colonel Mitchell then 
 took the command of the regiment, but was soon wounded 
 and carried off the field, resigning the command to the 
 valiant Captain Holmes, who was soon wounded and carried 
 off: the intrepid Captain D. Campbell then took the com- 
 mand; he also was soon wounded and carried off: thus 
 the command devolved on the next senior officer present. 
 The conduct of Captain D. Macdonald merits notice, and 
 indeed every officer and man in this more than Spartan 
 corps. 
 
 A highlander had his knapsack carried away by a cannon 
 ball from his shoulders ; it went to a considerable distance, 
 but the man ran after it and brought it back amidst the 
 laughter of all those who saw it.
 
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 Note 2. 
 
 The Duke of Richmond was with the Duke of Wel- 
 lington a considerable part of the day ; it was he who first 
 saw General Bulow approaching with the Prussians, who 
 afterwards were engaged in the wood near the right. The 
 Duke's sons, Lords George and W. Lennox, also exhibited 
 a conduct of no ordinary kind. His nephew, the brave 
 Lord Apsley, volunteered his service, and was employed by 
 the Duke of Wellington as aide-de-camp. Every one knows 
 the bravery of his eldest son. Earl March. Such patriotic 
 conduct is truly characteristic of this noble family. 
 
 Note 3. 
 
 The superior merit of Major-general Sir Henry Torrens, 
 K. C. B. military secretary, &c. demands our notice. His 
 indefatigable zeal in discharging the important duties of his 
 profession, his prompt attention to any communication which 
 may have in view the good of the service, are qualifications 
 that can never be too highly appreciated. 
 
 Note 4. 
 
 To the magnanimous and firm conduct of persevering 
 Britain is justly attributed the fell of the arch-usurper. The 
 determined bravery also of the Dutch, Belgic, and Prussian 
 troops merits unbounded praise. 
 
 The loss of the French at Quatrebras and Ligny was 
 about 15,000 men, leaving about 130,000 men on the morning 
 of the 18th ; 35,000 of these were with Marshal Grouchy, to 
 watch the motions of the Prussians ; but there still remained 
 95,000, and some troops having joined in the morning, it
 
 was increased to 100,000 men, with which Napoleon attacked 
 the British, &c, on the morning of the 18th of June. 
 
 Note 5. 
 
 Napoleon was particularly struck with the fine appearance 
 of some of the British troops: he said to his aide-de-camp, 
 " How steadily those troops take their ground how beauti- 
 fully tliose cavalry form observe those grey horse (Scotch 
 greys) are they not noble troops ? yet in half an hour I 
 shall cut them to pieces." 
 
 The extension of ground in front of the two armies was 
 the least known in the memory of military men. The British 
 line was about a mile and a half in length, and that of the 
 French army about two miles. 
 
 About 1 1 o'clock the French army was formed, and ready 
 to attack the British. The right wing was commanded by 
 Count Lobau, the left by Jerome Buonaparte, the centre by 
 Generals Reille and D*Erlon ; the imperial guard in reserve. 
 
 The army of the allies the guards, under General Cooke, 
 occupied the right ; General Alton's division the left ; the 
 Prince of Orange's corps, with the Brunswick and Nassau re- 
 giments, the centre ; the left wing comprised the divisions of 
 Generals Picton, Kempt, and Lambert. 
 
 The British, German legions, Hanoverian, &c. cavalry, 
 consisted of eight brigades, under the chief command of the 
 Earl of Uxbridge. 
 
 1st brigade 1st and 2d life guards (blues), king's dragoon 
 guards (household troops) ; commanded by General Lord E. 
 Somerset, 
 
 2d brigade Royal dragoons, Scotch Greys, Inniskillen 
 dragoons ; commanded by General Ponsonby. 
 
 3d brigade 1st and 2d light dragoons and 2d hussars; 
 General Dornberg.
 
 4th brigade 11th, 12th, and 16th light dragoons ; General 
 Vandeleur. 
 
 5th brigade 7th, 10th, and 18th hussars ; General Vivian. 
 
 6th brigade 1st and 3d regiments hussars; Colonel 
 Arantschildt. 
 
 7th brigade 13th, 15th, and 23d light dragoons ; General 
 Grant. 
 
 8th brigade Prince Regent's hussars and Verden hussars; 
 Colonel Endorf. 
 
 3d brigade British cavalry, commanded by General Adam ; 
 1st brigade infantry king's German legion, by Colonel Du 
 Piatt ; 3d brigade Hanoverian infantry, by Colonel Halkett ; 
 formed the 2d division of the army, commanded by Lieute- 
 nant-general Sir Henry Clinton, 
 
 5th brigade British infantry, commanded by Major-general 
 Halkett; 2d brigade king's German legion, by Colonel 
 Ompteda; 1st brigade Hanoverian infantry, by Major-ge- 
 neral Killansegge ; formed the 3d division of the army, com- 
 manded by Lieutenant-general Sir Charles Alten. 
 
 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th line battalions of the king's German 
 legion, formed the 1st brigade, commanded by Colonel Du 
 Piatt. 
 
 5th and 8th line battalions, and 1st and 2d light battalions, 
 formed the 2d brigade of infantry king's German legion, 
 
 1st battalion of the Duke of York's, foot battalion of 
 Grubenhagen, and foot battalion of Bremen, formed the 1st 
 brigade of Hanoverian infantry. 
 
 Foot battalion of Luneberg, foot battalion of Botmer, and 
 militia battalion of Lalzgetter, formed the 2d brigade. 
 
 Militia battalions of Bremen and Verden, 2d and 3d bat- 
 talions Duke of York's, and foot battalion of Lunenburg, 
 formed the 3d brigade, commanded by Colonel Halkett.
 
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 Militia battalions of Lauberg, Verden, Osteradt, and Min- 
 den, formed the 4th brigade, commanded by Colonel Best. 
 
 Militia battalions of Flammeler and Griff horn formed the 
 5th brigade, commanded by Colonel Vincke. 
 
 Foot battalion of Callemberg, with the militia of Hoga, 
 Nieuberg, and Bentham, formed the 6th brigade, and the 
 last of Hanoverian infantry, commanded by Major-general 
 Lyon. 
 
 Note 6. 
 
 As was said of Frederick the Great, our hero is coolly 
 intrepid ; he discerns, as by intuition, what inferior minds 
 never discover at all ; he seizes with rapidity, and improves 
 with skill, the favourable, the decisive moments of battle. 
 
 Undismayed, the hero stationed himself in the open part 
 of the plain, in the very hottest of the fire, where he could 
 be seen distinctly by both armies, and there issued his orders 
 with as much coolness and precision as if his troops were 
 manoeuvring at a review. 
 
 Note 7. 
 
 General the Earl of Uxbridge (now Marquis of Anglesea), 
 whose courage only could be equalled by his abilities, com- 
 manded the cavalry. 
 
 This general, when the British army was retreating on the 
 17th, was in the rear of the last troop of cavalry, when 
 looking behind him he observed a French regiment formed 
 across the road ready to charge ; he instantly turned round 
 and galloped back towards the enemy alone, waving his hat 
 to his soldiers, who had advanced considerably on the retreat, 
 and were a long distance from their general. Captain Kelly, 
 of the horse guards, was the first person to join his lordship
 
 at full gallop ; and these two heroes remained alone a minute 
 or two close in front of the French, who stood still, being so 
 amazed at their intrepidity. The regiment came up and 
 charged the enemy, who were forced to retire. If the two 
 who first approached them were a fair sample, what an idea 
 the French must have of the whole army ! 
 
 Note 8. 
 
 The intrepid general his royal highness the Prince of 
 Orange commanded the first corps of infantry. Napoleon's 
 gasconading assertions that he would dine in Brussels on 
 Sunday, the 18th of June, the Prince confuted by his every 
 act during this tremendous struggle. 
 
 Note 9. 
 
 Colonels Macdonell, Woodford, Saltoun, Hepburn, and 
 Home of the foot guards, and the rest of the officers and 
 men in the garden of Goment, &c. proved themselves every 
 way worthy the brave corps to which they belonged. 
 Through the whole of the day they Stood the reiterated 
 attacks of the most powerful troops Napoleon could send 
 against them troops inflamed with the hottest fury, by 
 being so often repulsed by soldiers so inferior in number. 
 Neither superior force, nor even the Chateau of Goment 
 flaming about their heads,* could intimidate this little C great J 
 band; " like gold tried in the fire they proved themselves." 
 An invincible firmness saved them. They bravely weathered 
 the tremendous storm which Napoleon's rage had raised 
 
 When Napoleon found that Jerome's division could not drive the guards 
 from Goment, he ordered it to be set on fire, which was accomplished by the 
 shells from various mortars being brought to bear upon it.
 
 against them, till determined valour gloriously triumphed. 
 Knowing the importance of the place with which they were 
 charged, they resolved to presex"ve the sacred trust, or perish 
 to a man at their post. 
 
 Had this position been carried, the result must have been 
 fatal to the British army : immediately behind it were some 
 heights which would have commanded and enfiladed the 
 whole of the Duke of Wellington's lines. By this my reader 
 will see the reason why this position presented itself as the 
 first object of attack, and why that attack was continued 
 with such unceasing obstinacy. Napoleon, to cover his real 
 design, and prevent the Duke from sending reinforcements 
 to Goment, commenced a most desperate attack through the 
 whole of the line ; a force, irresistible to any other troops, 
 ascended the eminence on which the British were posted, 
 between La Haye Sainte and Goment, and ruslied on the 
 squares. The French artillery, mowing down whole ranks, 
 was unavailing ; they were instantly filled, and no ground 
 lost. Buonaparte might well exclaim, " how these English 
 stand their ground!" At one time the enemy had pene- 
 trated a considerable way into the wood, but the Duke of 
 Wellington, remarkable for a quick penetration as well as 
 sight, sent a reinforcement of the Coldstream and third 
 regiments, which soon drove them out of it, and every sub- 
 sequent attempt they made to repossess themselves of it 
 proved abortive. The following account is derived from 
 high authority. A British officer sent out with twenty men 
 returned with one, and being again sent out with 150, re- 
 turned with 50. The greatest sacrifices the enemy made to 
 gain possession of this place proved ineffectual. Amid the 
 dreadful noise of this terrible fight the officers were obeyed
 
 as well as if on the parade ; the troops preservmg the same cool 
 and restrained fire, Without hazarding any thing :^the officers 
 frequently went in front of them to give their orders. 
 
 The Dutch, Belgic, Brunswick, and Hanoverian troops 
 maintained the same solid order, and the same ready, re- 
 strained, and destructive fire as the British regiments with 
 whom they were intermingled. In the short compass of 
 about half an hour 1500 men perished in the orchard of the 
 chateau of Goment, which contained not more than four 
 acres. 
 
 Note 10. 
 
 A gunner of the rocket brigade, while holding the horses 
 of those employed at the rocket frames, lost his head by a 
 cannon shot, but he remained sitting upon his horse till he 
 was pulled off by one of his comrades when the word was 
 given to limber the guns and retire. 
 
 Note 11. 
 
 The Duke of Wellington, who well knew how to ap- 
 preciate the value of their services, says, " the Prussian 
 general Muffling, the Russian general Pozzo di Borgo, the 
 Austrian general Baron Vincent, and the Spanish general 
 Alava, greatly distinguished themselves." The latter ge- 
 neral, so well known in the peninsular war, was the Spanish 
 minister to the Court of the Netherlands; and being at 
 Brussels at the time, he joined the hero he so much admii-ed, 
 -and was close beside him through the whole of this tre- 
 mendous day. 
 
 Note 12. 
 Major-general Olfermans and Colonel De Butler com- 
 
 
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 matided the Duke of Brunswick's corps, 1st brigade light 
 infantry, and 1st of line, a regiment of death hussars, and a 
 squadron of lancers. 
 
 Note 13. 
 
 Major-general Sir W. Dornberg commanded the 3d bri- 
 gade, 1st and 2d light dragoons, and 2d husssars. 
 
 Note 14. 
 
 Lieutenant-general Charles Count Alten commanded the 
 3d division of infantry. 
 
 Note 15. 
 
 The gallant Major-general Lord E. Somerset, 1st brigade 
 of cavalry, 1st and 2d life guards, royal horse guards, and 
 king's dragoon guards. 
 
 Note 16. 
 
 Colonel F. A. L. Baron de Arentsschildt commanded 1st 
 and 3d regiments king's German legion hussars. 
 
 Lieutenant-colonels Wertemberg, Vandersanden, Lingen- 
 dank, Jonch, and Captain Gracier, commanded the 1st bri- 
 gade, 2d division (Netherlands). Their courage was directed 
 by great skill. 
 
 :m^ ;aB.mifc Note 17. 
 Major-general Grant commanded the 5th brigade British 
 cavalry, the 7th and 15th hussars, supported by his royal 
 highness the Duke of Cumberland's Hanoverian hussars. 
 
 Note 18. 
 Major-general Van Merlen (Netherlands) commanded the
 
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 1st brigade light cavalry (Dutch), and the 5th regiment of 
 light horse (Belgic). 
 
 Note 19. 
 
 Captain (now Major) Kelly, of the life guards, in a charge 
 encountered the colonel of the cuirassiers, and by one blow 
 cleaved his helmet through and cut his head half asunder : 
 falling from his horse, the captain dismounted and tore oiF 
 the epaulet from his shoulder as a trophy. On the return 
 of this regiment from a successful charge against the cuiras- 
 siers, the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Uxbridge gave 
 them thanks for their gallant conduct, and the Earl, ad- 
 dressing Captain Kelly, said, " I particularly noticed you ; 
 it was well done, and I shall report you for promotion." 
 
 Note 20. 
 
 Major-general Sir James Kempt commanded the 8th 
 brigade, 1st battalion 28th and 32d regiments, 1st battalion 
 79th (highlanders), 1st battalion 92d, rifle corps, and one 
 company 2d battalion. 
 
 Major-general Sir Denis Pack the 9th brigade, 1st regi^ 
 ment royal Scotch, 1st battalion 92d and 4;2d regiments, and 
 2d battalion ^^th regiment. 
 
 Note 21. 
 
 Lieutenant-general Chasse (Netherlands) commanded 6 
 battalions of cavalry. 
 
 Note 22. 
 Lieutenant-general CoUaert (Netherlands) the 3d brigade.
 
 m 
 
 Note 23. 
 
 Major-general Trip (Netherlands), 1st, 2d, and 3d regi- 
 ments of carabineers, 1st and 3d Dutch, 2d Belgic. 
 
 Note 24. 
 
 Major-general Lambert, 10th brigade (British), 1st bat- 
 taHons 4 th, 27th, and 40th regiments of foot. 
 
 Note 25. 
 Major-general Baron de Ghigny's brigade (Netherlands), 
 2d battalion cavalry and 4th regiment dragoons (Dutch), 
 and 8th hussars (Belgic). 
 
 Note 26. 
 
 Sir William Ponsonby's division took 30 of the enemy's 
 cannon, sabred the artillery, and took 2000 prisoners ; he 
 and his brigade performed exploits which would vie with 
 those of ancient Greece or Rome: his brigade, the 2d, 
 comprising, the royal dragoons, Scotch greys, and Inniskillin 
 dragoons. 
 
 Serjeant Ewart, of the Scotch greys, took the eagle of the 
 45th regiment, which was superbly gilt, and on it was in- 
 scribed the names of Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland, and Wa- 
 gram. In the struggle to take it, it was much tarnished with 
 blood and dirt. Ewart first killed the bearer of this trophy, 
 then a lancer, and lastly a foot soldier, who at the moment 
 successively attacked him. The brave Francis Styles also 
 brought in an eagle. 
 
 Note 27. 
 Major-general Vandeleur commanded the 4th brigade
 
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 cavalry (British), 11th, 12th, and 16th regiments light 
 dragoons. 
 
 Note 28. 
 The gallant general Count de Bylan^t (Netherlands) 
 commanded the 1st brigade, 7th battalion infantry (Belgic), 
 27th chasseurs,* 5th_, 7th, and 8th battalions militia (Dutch). 
 
 Note 29. 
 
 Major-general Vivian, the 5th brigade (British), 7th, 10th, 
 and 18th hussars. 
 
 Note 30. 
 
 Major-general Adam commanded the 3d brigade, 1st bat- 
 talion 52d and 1st battalion 71st regiments of foot, and nine 
 companies 95th (rifle corps). 
 
 Note 31. 
 
 Major-general Halkett commanded the 5th brigade, 
 (British), the 2d battalions of the 30th, 69th, and 73d regi- 
 ments, and the 33d regiment, all of the line. This brigade 
 was attacked eleven times by the cuirassiers and lancers, 
 rendered furious in being so often repulsed. Finding every 
 effort ineffectual to break in upon these brave troops, the 
 commanding officer of one of the squadrons opposed to 
 them resorted to the following ruse de guerre : he rode up 
 to the front of one of the regiments, and lowered his sword 
 to the colonel ; the officers who saw it cried out, " They sur- 
 
 * The 5tli battalion in reserve having suffered severely on the 16th, as did 
 the 6th hussars, commanded by the gallant Colonel Boreel> and the 2d 
 cuirassiers, commanded by the intrepid Colonel Reneault.
 
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 render they surrender !" Thus the regiment might have 
 been thrown into confusion and cut to pieces, had not 
 Halkett penetrated the design : why surrender, thought he, 
 when nothing can prevent their escaping ? " Present ^fire," 
 was the judicious, the prompt reply; which in all probability 
 saved the regiment from destruction. The cuirassiers re- 
 peatedly charged the 30th regiment, but they did not suc- 
 ceed in making the least impression. When the horsemen 
 had passed, the regiment deployed into line, that its fire 
 might be more extended and effectual. As soon as this was 
 done, the word was given, " reform square ; prepare to re- 
 ceive cavalry." The cuirassiers several times, but without 
 effect, walked round this brave regiment, eagerly watching 
 for an opportunity to dash in. The cavalry frequently pe- 
 netrated between the squares and the very rear of the British 
 line, but in retiring they suffered dreadfully. The crisis was 
 alarming. 
 
 Note 32. 
 
 In order to repel these desperate attacks upon the British 
 line, the gallant Sir John Elley was directed to bring up the 
 heavy brigade of cavalry, as the other cavalry were found 
 inadequate to the task. < These consisted of the life guards, 
 Oxford blues, and l^ eefa ear L^ ffigas-, who instantly charged, and 
 the most sanguinary conflict ever witnessed took place. Not- 
 withstanding the weight and armour of these powerful cuiras- 
 siers, they proved altogether unable to withstand the shock of 
 these truly astonishing troops, for they literally drove them 
 down, both horse and man ; while the strength of the British 
 infantry was no less pre-eminent, when they mingled and 
 fought hand to hand. Several hundreds of the enemy were
 
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 forced headlong over a quarry or gravel pit, where they rolled 
 and perished together, an undistinguished mass of men and 
 horses. 
 
 The life guards coming up in the rear of the 95th, which 
 distinguished regiment acted as sharp shooters in front of 
 the line, sustaining and repelling a most formidable onset of 
 the French, called out to them, " brave 95th, do you lather 
 them and we will shave them." Many individuals distin- 
 guished themselves by feats of personal strength and valour. 
 Among these we will select the famous Shaw, a corporal of 
 the life guards ; it was supposed he had slain at the least 
 ten Frenchmen before he was killed by a small shot. 
 
 Sir John EUey, who led this brilliant charge, was distin- 
 guished for a prowess eminent as his personal bravery. 
 He was at one time surrounded by several of the cuirassiers, 
 but being a tall and very powerful man, completely master 
 of his sword and horse, he cut his way out, covering the 
 ground with the bodies of his assailants. 
 
 Note 33, 
 
 On the 15th, although the Prussians lost the day, yet they 
 covered themselves with glory. A shot struck the renowned 
 Prince Blucher's horse, while leading on a desperate charge 
 in person. Furious from the pain, the animal darted forward, 
 till exhausted it dropped down dead. It fell upon its 
 gallant rider, who, stunned by the fall, lay entangled under 
 it. The French cuirassiers advanced; the last Prussian 
 horseman had passed their chief without knowing his situa- 
 tion.* One adjutant alone remained; he alighted beside 
 
 *' To the intrepid devotion of Count de Nostitz" we are indebted for the 
 preservation of the immortal Blucher.
 
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 him, resolved to share his fate. The enemy pursued the 
 charge, passed rapidly by without seeing the veteran chief. 
 The Prussian cavalry returned to the charge ; the enemy 
 were driven back, and again passed him without perceiving 
 his helpless state : and then, and not till then, the hero was 
 extricated from his perilous situation. Blucher, thus extri- 
 cated, mounted a dragoon horse, and the first words he 
 uttered were, *' well, my brave comrades, let us charge them 
 again," 
 
 Note 34-. 
 
 His excellency General D'Aubreme, now secretary at 
 war, &c. commanded the 2d brigade (Netherlands), 36th 
 battalion of chasseurs, 3d battalion of foot (Belgic), 12th and 
 13th battalions of foot, and the 3d and 10th battalions of 
 militia (Dutch). 
 
 Note 35. 
 
 His royal highness Prince William of Prussia. Prussian 
 generals commanding Steinmitz, 1st brigade; Pirch, 2d; 
 Jagow, 3d ; Henkel, 4th ; Roeder, 6th (cavalry) ; Losthin, 
 Hacke, and Ryssel, 14 regiments; under the command of 
 Prince William. 
 
 Note 36. 
 
 Lieutenant-general Sir Henry Clinton, who commanded 
 the 2d division of the army, comprising, the 3d brigade of 
 British infantry, commanded by Major-general Adam; the 
 1st brigade of infantry king's German legion, commanded 
 by Colonel Du Plat ; 2d brigade Hanoverian infantry, com- 
 manded by Colonel Halkett. See the Duke of Wellington's 
 despatches.
 
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 Note 37. 
 
 Major-general Du Vivier (Netherlands). Colonel de Bru^n 
 commanded the 2d regiment of cuirassiers. 
 
 Note 38. 
 
 Major-general Sir Charles Colville commanded the 4th 
 brigade. 
 
 Note 39. 
 
 Major-general Sir James Lyon commanded the battalion 
 of Callemberg militia of Hoga, Nieuberg, and Bentham, 
 and the 6th brigade of Hanoverian infantry. 
 
 Note 40. 
 
 Major-general Kilmansegge commanded the Duke of 
 York's, 1st battalion Grubenhaagen, Verden, Bremen, and 
 Sporcken chasseurs. 
 
 Note 41. 
 General Perponcher (Netherlands). 
 
 Note 42. 
 
 General Thielman commanded the 3d corps of Prussians 
 at Wavre, a town of some note, about ten English miles on 
 the left of Waterloo. Marshal Grouchy had about 41,000 
 infantry and 6000 cavalry, with which he attacked Thielman 
 on the 18th, with the idea of cutting off the road to Brussels. 
 The contest was desperate, but the Prussians, when Blucher 
 could send them no reinforcements, were determined not to 
 give in ; thus Grouchy was at length compelled to relinquish 
 his purpose. 
 
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 38 
 
 Had Thielman yielded or given way early on that eventful 
 day, Bulow's corps would have been taken in the rear, as 
 Napoleon calculated that it would be. Bonaparte relied 
 much upon the diversion he supposed Grouchy was making 
 in the rear of the Prussians ; he expected that he would have 
 come up and decided the day, as General Desaix did at 
 Marengo. 
 
 Note 43. 
 
 A massy column of the French were seen upon the heights 
 driving all before them, resolved to carry the British posi- 
 tions. The venerable Picton waited not for their attack, 
 but formed his division into a solid square, and at the head 
 of this intrepid band advanced to the charge. The boldness 
 of the mancEuvre astonished the prodigious body of French 
 veterans ; they had not been in the habit of meeting such 
 troops with a Picton at their head : the shock was irresistible ; 
 the enemy were forced, although reluctantly, to fly, but in 
 their retreat they fired a volley, which put a period to the 
 brilliant career of one of the greatest generals of the age, 
 by a ball that struck him in the temple. When the body 
 was examined, it was found that he had been dangerously 
 wounded on the 16th, a wound which might have proved 
 fatal, had he received no other, and which he had concealed 
 from all excepting his valet, and notwithstanding which, 
 he continued to discharge the arduous duties of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 Note 44. 
 
 Colonel Miller, of the 1 st guards, when dying, requested that 
 they would bring the colours of the regiment : after behold- 
 ing those colours, which none could be more faithful to, he
 
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 desired they might be waved over him, which was done till 
 the hero expired. 
 
 Note 45. 
 
 The brave Ponsonby fell on the left of La Haye Sainte. 
 At the head of his noble troops he charged the PoUsh lancers, 
 and silenced at once their destructive attacks upon the 
 British infantry. Never was a better timed or a more suc- 
 cessful charge, but the ardour of his troops hurried them on 
 too far; Sir William, attended only by one aide-de-camp, 
 galloped after to restrain their impetuosity. Crossing a field, 
 his horse sunk, and he could not extricate him from the mire : 
 a body of lancers approaching full speed, fell upon and 
 pierced the hero with their hateful lances. 
 
 Thus fell, universally lamented, the immortal Ponsonby 
 and his brave and faithful aide-de-camp by a host of lancers ; 
 but his brave troops soon revenged the death of their be- 
 loved general, by almost annihilating those lancers by whom 
 he was slain. 
 
 The enemy again pressed on, carrying all before him ; his 
 immense force threatening destruction to all opposition : but 
 the brigade of heavy cavalry very opportunely coming up, 
 supported by the gallant Colonel Ponsonby 's 12th light 
 dragoons, compelled him to turn about and fly from troops 
 by whom he was not likely to derive any benefit by farther 
 acquaintance. 
 
 The Honourable Colonel Ponsonby fell, his wounds being 
 desperate. As he was lying in this helpless situation a 
 lancer plunged his lance into his shoulder, which perforated 
 to his lungs. In this state he lay a considerable time, 
 having several very severe wounds, and suffering great
 
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 agony, accompanied by the most violent thirst. A French 
 officer severely wounded, at some distance, crept towards 
 him, and when to aH appearance at the last gasp, he pre- 
 sented a pocket pistol to his mouth, in which was some kind 
 of spirit. Colonel Ponsonby soon found its beneficial effect, 
 and attributed the preservation of his life to the humanity 
 of this officer. After his recovery every endeavour to find 
 this officer was ineffectual. 
 
 Note 46. 
 
 Colonel Hervey, Mth light dragoons. This officer was in 
 a charge of his cavalry when he found himself opposed to 
 a French officer, who seeing so brave a man with only one 
 arm, when in the very act of making a cut at him, dropped 
 his sword, declaring he could never use it against a man so 
 situated. 
 
 Note 47. 
 
 Sir George Adam Wood, Knt. C. B. royal artillery, and 
 the intrepid Colonel Carmichael Smyth, C. B'. royal en- 
 gineers. See the Duke of Wellington's despatches on these 
 gentlemen. In the word _^rm is meant the following me- 
 ritorious officers of the royal artillery : 
 
 Colonels Sir A. Dickson, K. C. B. ; Sir J. May, K. C. B. ; 
 Sir A. S. Frazer, K. C. B. ; Sir H. D. Ross, K. C. B. ; J. W. 
 Smith, C.B.; Charles Gold, C.B.; A. Macdonald, C. B.; 
 Sir Robert Gardiner, K. C.B. ; James Hawker, C.B. ; Ro- 
 bert Bull, C.B.; Percy Drummond, C.B.j S. G. Adye, 
 C. B. ; J. B. Parker, C. B. ; E. C. Whinyates, rocket brigade ; 
 Majors T. Rogers, C. B. ; Sir George C. Hoste, Knt. C. B. 
 f the royal engineers, and other officers who merit particu-
 
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 lar notice, but whose names would make this small work too 
 voluminous : but such as have survived, the reader may find 
 in the army list judiciously marked W. 
 
 Note 48. 
 
 For more than three hours the enemy continued to make 
 charge after charge from one end of the British line to the 
 other. Victory was several times doubtful, Wellington 
 pulled out his watch and said, " Would to God night or 
 Blucher would come." There was scarcely a square that 
 the Duke did not visit in person, with as much coolness as 
 if reviewing the soldiers in St. James's Park. The soldiers 
 repeated his short phrases as if they possessed a tahsmanic 
 influence. While he stood in the centre of the high road 
 in front of Mount St. John, being distinguished by the 
 enemy, several pieces were levelled against him ; many of 
 the balls grazed a tree near him, that now bears his name, 
 and was afterwards bought for a considerable price by an 
 Englishman, and taken with him to England ; so much value 
 being set upon any thing which regards this great general, 
 or that is in any way connected with the battle of Waterloo. 
 When the balls flew round his grace in every direction, he 
 with the greatest sang Jroid remarked, " I think they fire 
 better here than they did in Spain." Then, with a quick- 
 ness of sight for which he is remarkable, he saw a po^verful 
 charge of cavalry meditated against the 95th ; he rode up to 
 them and said, " Stand fast, 95th, we must not be beat what 
 would they say in England ? " 
 
 A column of 2000 bore down upon the 92d, which should 
 be honoured by the name invincible. From the losses this 
 regiment had sustained on the 16th, and the murderous fire 
 to which it had been exposed on this day, it was reduced
 
 to 200 men ; yet they shrunk not frotn the unequal contest, 
 but deploying into line, presented their small but impene- 
 trable front against this colossal column. They charged 
 with an impetuosity that was irresistible, and cut open the 
 column for their countrymen the noble greys, who for- 
 tunately came up at the time to dash in at the opening. 
 The two regiments, cheering each other, shouted ' Scotland 
 for ever ! " These Caledonian conquerors suffered not a man 
 to escape to bear the gloomy tidings to his imperial com- 
 mander, A highland serjeant had the basket hilt of his 
 sword so bruised, that he could not get his hand out with- 
 out the assistance of a blacksmith. 
 
 The brave Scotch division of 6000 was reduced to 2000 
 men. The 30th, 42d, 73d, 79th, and 92d regiments suffered 
 severely. The 5th and 6th divisions were almost destroyed. 
 Every regiment in the British service signalized itself, " nor 
 was there any description of men who did not behave well," 
 Each individual in the army fought as if the fate of the 
 battle depended upon his own exertions. 
 
 Note 49. 
 A. Under the mild sway of the venerable King of Great 
 Britain, the beloved father of a free people, " Every one 
 sitteth under his own vine and fig-tree, none daring to make 
 him afraid." " An Englishman's house is his castle," which 
 he will defend till the last spark of life is extinct. 
 
 About six o'clock in the evening Bonaparte made an 
 attack on the British centre, with about 10,000 of his 
 cavalry guards. At this critical moment the gallant Earl of 
 Uxbridge made some brilliant charges with the household 
 troops. Two battalions of the old guards (French) were 
 cut to pieces. In leading one of the charges the Earl cried
 
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 out, " Now for the honour of the household troops, they 
 will add to themselves new laurels ;" and turning to the 
 Duke of Wellington he said, " We shall know whether our 
 household troops are not more than a match for their in- 
 vincibles." 
 
 One general officer was under the necessity of stating that 
 his brigade was reduced to one third of its numbers, that 
 those which remained were exhausted with fatigue, and 
 that a temporary relief, of however short duration, was a 
 measure of peremptory necessity. " Tell him," said the 
 Duke, " what he proposes is impossible ; he and I, and every 
 Englishman on the field, must die on the spot we now oc- 
 cupy." " It is enough," returned the general ; <' I and every 
 man under my command are determined to share his fate." 
 When the battle seemed doubtful the Duke said to those 
 who survived, " Never mind ; victory will yet be ours." To 
 a regiment very hotly engaged he said, " Hard pounding 
 this, gentlemen ; let us see who can pound the longest." 
 
 Note 50. 
 
 His highness Major-general Prince Saxe Weimar Eisenach 
 commanded the 1st and 2d regiments of Nassau, and the 
 2d and 3d battalions of Nassau Usingen. This brigade, 
 iOOO strong, was reduced to 1200 men. The conduct of 
 these troops was worthy their gallant commander. The 
 Hanoverian yagers, 8th battalion of line German legion, 
 the battalions of Luneberg, Bremen, Verden, Grubenhagen, 
 and the Duke of York's, distinguished themselves, as also 
 the brave General Baron Vincent (Austrian), who was 
 severely wounded. Also the Prussian general Kellerman, 
 and Colonels Von Ramdohr, Von Wurmb, and Langrehr.
 
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 Note 51. 
 
 At this critical moment the loss of the service of his royal 
 highness the Prince of Orange was much to be regretted by 
 an army in which he had acted so distinguished a part, an 
 army who had witnessed his bravery and admired his conduct. 
 He was wounded in the shoulder when rallying some of his 
 troops who had given way. 
 
 The Prince displayed on all occasions a courage which 
 remained invincible in the midst of danger. In a former 
 part of the day his ardour in the eventful struggle had 
 hurried him on to where danger had raised his ruthless 
 front. The foe thickened around him : like a lion in the midst 
 of a forest, he confronted all opposition and scattered death 
 around him. But the result must, at the least, have been 
 his imprisonment by such a formidable force, had not a 
 battalion of his rushed on to the assistance of their brave 
 general. His royal highness's horse received a wound which 
 proved mortal ; the gallant Baron Constant de Villars offered 
 his to the prince, who was supported by the brave Earl 
 March, who highly distinguished himself on various occa- 
 sions during this tremendous struggle. 
 
 " His royal highness the Prince of Orange distinguished 
 himself by his gallantry and good conduct, till he received 
 a wound from a musket shot through the shoulder, which 
 obliged him to quit the field." Duke of Wellington's 
 despatches. 
 
 Note 52. 
 
 General Kruse commanded the contingent of Nassau 
 Usingen, and three battalions of the first regiment, who
 
 charged with the bayonet the Moyenne guardy which had 
 wounded his royal highness the Prince of Orange. 
 
 Colonel Halkett, brother of the general, made a dash at 
 a French general who had advanced in front of his men, 
 and in the full view of his astonished followers brought him 
 off a prisoner. Major Lloyd, royal artillery, with another 
 officer, was obliged to take refuge in a square of the guards 
 at the time the French cavalry came up to the charge. 
 There was a gun between this battalion and the Brunswickers, 
 which had been taken, but drawn back from the enemy. 
 This these officers discharged five or six times at the French 
 cavalry with great effect, alternately firing it and returning 
 to the square as circumstances required. 
 
 Note 53. 
 
 The imperial guard advanced like an overwhelming flood, 
 sweeping all before it. The Duke, ever on the alert, saw 
 the critical situation in which he was placed, but never 
 wanting in generalship, he, with his usual firmness, took his 
 station near the guards. In trusting to them he could not 
 be deceived ; he knew well how to inflame their ardour : he 
 declared to them that it was his fixed determination to die 
 on the spot sooner than give way to the enemy. This 
 operated, as he knew it would do, in the minds of such 
 troops ; their ardour was raised to the highest pitch of 
 enthusiasm : the Duke had confidence in them, and he knew 
 that it was not misplaced. Never had army and commander 
 greater confidence in each other, nor was ever confidence 
 better founded. Proud of this confidence, and conscious of 
 the great importance of the high trust committed to their 
 charge, their lines were rendered as impenetrable as a rock 
 of adamant. 
 
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 66 
 
 The flower of Napoleon's army, 10,000 strong, approached 
 within about a hundred yards of the very spot on which the 
 Duke stood, a place on which he resolved to perish or con- 
 quer the seeming unconquerable force now so near him. 
 On the result hung the fate of the battle, and of nations. 
 The critical moment arrived, Wellington cried out, " Up, 
 guards, and at 'em ! " This produced an effect sudden and 
 simultaneous : they received this army., we may say, for- 
 midable to any troops unlike themselves, with a well directed 
 fire, which pierced them to the centre, and verily made them 
 halt. The second, like the first, poured hundreds of deaths 
 into the astonished assailants; and without suffering this 
 gigantic mass to deploy, the guards gave them three British 
 cheers, accompanied by one of their own charges of the 
 bayonet, which, almost as sudden as the electric fluid, found 
 its way to every nerve. 
 
 This prodigious body of veteran force was paralysed, and 
 became disjointed; and, hastily turning about, fled in dis- 
 order. The form of this huge column was shaped out by 
 the dying and the dead. To remedy the disgrace of their 
 companions, a regiment of the tirailleurs of the guards at- 
 tempted to flank the British guards, who instantly charged 
 them, when they made a motion to follow their comrades, 
 which was carried nem. con. 
 
 It is said that Napoleon was so enraged at what he termed 
 the obstinate resistance of the British, that he continued 
 without intermission to take large pinches of snuff from his 
 waistcoat pocket, snuffing a part and throwing the rest away 
 with a violent extension of the arm, exclaiming, " These 
 English are devils ! Will they never be beaten ? " Imme- 
 diately afterwards he added, " I shall beat them yet ; but it 
 is a pity to destroy such brave troops." He then turned to
 
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 Soult " How these English fight ! but they must soon give 
 way : don't you think so ? " Soult knowing, by experience, 
 what kind of troops they were, replied that he had his 
 doubts. " How so ? " said Napoleon. Soult answered, that 
 *' they would suffer themselves to be cut in pieces sooner than 
 surrender." Which answer ended the conversation abruptly. 
 Sometime after the above conversation Napoleon jokingly 
 said, that although he was too late for dinner at Brussels, 
 yet at all events he intended to sup there. 
 
 Note 54. 
 
 By restoring to France her legitimate sovereign, a virtuous 
 prince, whose paternal anxiety for the welfare of his people 
 proves itself in every department of his administration. Let 
 it be recorded, to his eternal honour, that anxious to spare 
 the lives even of those who might be found in arms against 
 him, he sent to the Duke of Wellington 25,000 sterUng, 
 so early as the 30th of May, requesting him to insert in the 
 order of the day, that every soldier should receive twenty 
 shillings for each French prisoner he might bring in. What 
 a humane expedient to prevent the unnecessary effusion of 
 blood ! 
 
 Note 55. 
 
 A noble soul rises superior to danger and the greatest 
 privations : his patriotic mind is richly fraught with an ardent 
 love to his country and his prince. 
 
 Note 56. 
 
 During the whole of the day the heroic Earl of Uxbridge 
 exposed himself to the greatest danger. Wherever the 
 battle raged with the hottest fury, there he was contending
 
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 with the enemies of his country. He personally led his 
 cavalry to every charge ; and, what is most surprising, he was 
 not even wounded till the enemy were routed in every 
 quarter, and the victory was complete. Nearly the last shot 
 that was fired wounded him in the knee. During the am- 
 putation of his leg not a groan escaped from him, nor did a 
 contortion of countenance indicate that he was undergoing 
 the operation ; but with a firmness equal to that which he 
 displayed in the field, even while the instrument of the 
 surgeon was engaged in this painful duty, he magnanimously 
 exclaimed, " JVho xuould not lose a leg for such a victory'?" 
 
 Note 57. 
 
 Not only the superior prowess of his grace attracted 
 notice, but the confidence he had in his troops produced the 
 most happy effects. 
 
 See the debate on the grant to the Duke of Wellington, 
 June 23, 1815. See also the beautiful description Lord 
 Castlereagh gives of this interesting contest, in his speech 
 on a motion for presenting the thanks of the House of Com- 
 mons to the Duke of Wellington and his brave associates. 
 I am sorry its length prevents my inserting it here. 
 
 By Mr. Whitbread also on the same occasion. " If such 
 a trait," says Mr. Whitbread, " were recorded in history as 
 having occurred ten centuries ago, with what emotions of 
 admiration and generous enthusiasm would it be read ! To 
 see a commander of his eminence throw himself into a hollow 
 square of infantry as a secure refuge, till the rage and tor- 
 rent of the attack was overpast ; and that not once only, but 
 twice or thrice in the course of the battle, proved that his 
 confidence was placed not in any one particular corps, but 
 in the whole British army. In that mutual confidence lay the
 
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 power and strength of the troops. The Duke of Wellington 
 knew he was safe when he thus trusted himself to the 
 fidelity and valour of his men, and they knew and felt that 
 the sacred charge thus confided to them could never be 
 wrested from their hands *." 
 
 Note 58. 
 
 Lieutenant-colonel Canning, aide-de-camp to the Duke, 
 had been sent by his grace with orders, and having executed 
 his commission, and returning, he was mortally wounded in 
 the breast : as if unmindful of his own fate, he inquired in 
 the most affectionate manner of Earl March if the Duke was 
 yet safe. " He is, my friend," replied the brave young lord. 
 A smile of joy played round the lips of the dying hero, who 
 exclaimed, " God bless him !" and taking the noble Earl's 
 hand, who rendered him every possible assistance, added, 
 " and God bless you ! " breathing his last. 
 
 Note 59. 
 
 Colonel Ferrier, of the first life guards, now gloriously 
 fell : he had led his brave regiment personally to every charge, 
 several of which he made after his head was cut open by a 
 sabre, and his body pierced by a lance. 
 
 The brave Colonel Cameron, 92d foot, fell. 
 
 Colonel Sir William Ellis, 23d foot, bravely fought and 
 fell. 
 
 Colonel Currie, of Lord Hill's staff. The brave officers 
 who fell and were wounded are so numerous that I shall be 
 compelled to refer my readers to the Duke of Wellington's 
 despatches. 
 
 * Debate on the grant to the Duke of Wellington, June 30, 1815.
 
 The gallant Sir Francis D'Oyley, of the 1st guards, glo- 
 riously fell near the close of the action. 
 
 Note 60. 
 
 Colonel the Hon. Sir Alexander Gordon, Knt. aide-de- 
 camp to his grace the Duke of Wellington, an officer of 
 superior merit, ^brother to the Earl of Aberdeen. 
 
 Note 61. 
 
 Colonel Delancy, A. Q. M. G. animating and leading 
 back to the charge a battalion of Hanoverians who had 
 given way, received a wound which proved mortal; nor would 
 he allow his men to remove him to the rear, observing that 
 time should not be wasted upon him, that might be more 
 usefully employed in assisting many a brave fellow, who 
 might be again enabled to fight the battles of his country. 
 He was found alive in the morning, to the great joy of his 
 friends, but died in a few days, probably a martyr to his 
 noble disposition. 
 
 Note 62. 
 
 The brave Duke of Brunswick (to avenge the death of as 
 brave a father, who gloriously fell in the unfortunate battle 
 of Jena) personally led every charge of cavalry during the 
 day : he was scarcely engaged ere a severe wound caused 
 him for a moment to retire to the rear : a handkerchief was 
 bound round it, and he returned to the head of his men, 
 who were beginning to waver, and, exhorting them to fight 
 bravely for their prince and their country, led them back to 
 the charge.' Immediately afterwards he receired a wound 
 which was disregarded. Another slight wound, and after that 
 a severe and dangerous one, checked not his ardour; nor
 
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 would he allow a dressing to be applied till he had dispersed 
 the enemy with whom he was contending. On his bravery 
 we might write a volume ; but we will only say that nothing 
 could surpass his heroic magnanimity, till, at the head of his 
 men, whom he was leading once more to a charge, he re- 
 ceived in his breast a musket bullet, which put a period to 
 the glorious career of this renowned chief. 
 
 Note 63. 
 
 The amiable Captain Curzon, D. A. G. (fourth son of 
 Lord Scarsdale), aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington, 
 was sent with Earl March on a service of great importance. 
 A grape shot struck him on the breast: falling from his horse, 
 he, with an affectionate smile, exclaimed, " Good bye, 
 March." It is needless to say how the Earl felt for his friend : 
 he rendered him every assistance in his power. All that he 
 could do for him could not preserve his brave companion 
 the vital spark was nearly extinct. A body of cuirassiers 
 approached towards the place, in order to attack a regiment 
 of Nassau stationed near them. Lord March saw their 
 danger, and hastened to form them into square, exhorting 
 them to stand the coming attack with firmness. Curzon 
 hearing this, lifted his head, and faintly exclaimed, " Well 
 done, March : that 's right, my brave fellow. Well done, well 
 done !" After which, with a dignity of soul that proclaimed 
 its greatness, he calmly resigned his breath. 
 
 Note 64. 
 
 The brave Prussians, and the gallant troops of his majesty 
 the king of the Netherlands, covered themselves with glory. 
 The Prince of Waterloo had as much talent and bravery in 
 his army as ever assembled on the field of battle. Wellington
 
 n 
 
 and the heroes he commanded would have replied to the 
 same language in the manner a famous general did, who 
 being told, in order to intimidate him, that the enemy would 
 send such volleys of arrows as would intercept the light of 
 the sun, nobly replied, " I am glad of it]; for, being excessive 
 hot, we shall fight in the shade !" 
 
 But to the ro7/al oak of old England, the heart of which 
 commanded a crew cut out of the same block A sail 
 much larger than his own bearing down upon him, and a 
 remark being made as to her number of guns, hands, &c. 
 bravely replied, '* There is time enough to count them after 
 we have taken her." This spirited reply was received with 
 the enthusiasm it justly merited, and the capture of the 
 enemy's vessel soon followed. 
 
 Note 65. 
 
 Buonaparte knew that true Britons, with hearts like her 
 native oak, would fly to the frontier to deal out to the foe 
 convincing proofs of the folly of such temerity. 
 
 Note 66. 
 
 This sudden fear, which operated so powerfully upon hig 
 mind, was occasioned by the sight of an Highland soldier. 
 I mean not to insinuate from this that Napoleon was a 
 coward : he knew too well what a formidable hand the kilted 
 heroes had in his defeat. Buonaparte went to the extreme 
 of rashness; he would sacrifice, without hesitation, any 
 number of men to accomplish his favourite object: division 
 after division of troops, whose attachment to and confidence 
 in him knew no bounds, were sent to occupy places in which 
 their brave companions in arms had been destroyed or driven 
 from in confusion. To every information of a repulse
 
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 ** Forward, forward," was the only reply. An English 
 battery levelling whole ranks ; the general not being able to 
 hold his position, sent an aide-de-camp to Napoleon to know 
 what he must do. " Let him carry the battery" was the 
 answer, turning ^way from the aide-de-camp. Buonaparte 
 exposed himself to the thickest of the fire : although we do 
 not credit his seeking out danger with a determination to die 
 on the field, yet he evinced much personal courage ; always 
 collected, and in full possession of the inexhaustible re- 
 sources of his genius. Seeing the guide frequently flinch at 
 the showers of shot which fell around them, he said, " Do 
 not stir, my friend; a ball will kill you equally in the back 
 as in the front, and wound you more disgracefully." 
 
 Note 67. 
 
 Palace of Laeke or Laeken, near Brussels. Napoleon 
 had papers already printed with him, purporting to be dated 
 Palace of Laeken, 19th of June, 1815, although the King of 
 the Netherlands was in full possession of it. His printer 
 was quicker than himself, for the heroes he had to contend 
 against, contrary to his expectation, not only prevented him 
 from ever reaching it, but tumbled him down from all his 
 usurped dignity and power. Had his proclamations been 
 dated St. Helena instead of the Palace of Laeken, they would 
 at any rate have had the credit of being prophetic. 
 
 In the retreat Buonaparte was very near being taken, his 
 carriage luas taken, in which was found the above-mentioned 
 proclamations, which he intended to issue from the palace 
 of the King of the Netherlands, on the 19th of June, 1815, 
 the very day they were taken by the victors. 
 
 The Hanoverian Landwehr merit notice. That of Osna-
 
 74 
 
 burgh, under Count Munster, fought against Napoleon's 
 imperial guard, and threw them into confusion. 
 
 Note 68. 
 
 The hand of Providence is visibly displayed in the pre- 
 servation of the King of the Netherlands, who is truly styled 
 thejhther of his people. 
 
 Note 69. 
 
 We have to lament the loss of Colonel Du Piatt, king's 
 German legion; Colonel Omteda, king's German legion; 
 Colonel Morrin, 69th foot. 
 
 Lieutenant-colonels Macara, 42d foot; Camieron, 92d 
 foot ; Currie, of Lord Hill's staff. 
 
 Majors G. Beane, royal artillery; Ramsay, royal artillery; 
 Cairnes, royal artillery ; Chambers, 30th foot ; Brevet-major 
 Crefton, 5th division; Brevet-major Roseviel, 2d light di- 
 vision. 
 
 Captains Bolton, royal artillery ; Crawford, guards ; Cham- 
 bers, aide-de-camp to General Picton; Charles Eles, 95th 
 foot; Robertson, 73d foot; Kennedy, 73d foot; Shannon, 
 2d light battalion king's German legion ; Blackman, Cold- 
 stream guards; Brown, 1st guards; Grose, 1st guards; 
 Holy cowan, 1 st light battalion king's German legion ; Goeben, 
 1st light battalion king's German legion; Gunning, 10th 
 hussars; Grove, 1st guards. 
 
 Lieutenants C. Manners, royal artillery; Lister, 95th 
 foot. 
 
 Ensigns Lord Hay, aide-de-camp to Major-general Mait- 
 land; Brown, 1st guards; Simpson, 3d guards. 
 
 1st foot Captain W. Buckley; Lieutenants J. Armstrong,
 
 J. E. Oneill; Ensigns J. G. Kenedy, C. Graham, and 
 Alexander Robertson. 
 
 32d foot Captains Edward Whitty and Boyce. 
 
 33d foot Captain J. Haigh ; Lieutenants Boyce and 
 Gore. 
 
 42d foot Robert Gordon and Ensign William Gerrard. 
 
 ^ith foot Lieutenant W. Tomkins, Ensign P. Cooke. 
 
 69th foot, 2d battalion Adjutant J. Kynock. 
 
 79th foot, 1st battalion Lieutenant William Whitwick. 
 
 92d Captain William Little ; Lieutenant Chisholm ; En- 
 signs A. Bicher, Macpherson, and Lieutenant William Lister. 
 
 73d foot Lieutenant Acres. 
 
 Hanoverian officers killed M. B. Verden, Lieutenant 
 Wegenor, M, B. Osterode, Lieutenant Janish. 
 
 King's German legion Captain Weigman. 
 
 54;ih foot Captain Crofton ; Brigade-major Reynolds. 
 
 2d life guards Richard Fitzgerald, lieutenant-colonel. 
 
 1st dragoon guards Major Bringhurst, Captain Battersby, 
 and Adjutant Shelver. 
 
 1st royal dragoons Captain Windsor, Lieutenant Forster, 
 Cornet Sykes, and Adjutant Shipley. 
 
 2d or R. N. B. dragoons Lieutenant-colonel Hamilton, 
 Captain Barnard, Lieutenant Trotter; Cornets Westley, 
 Kinchant, and Shuldam. 
 
 6th dragoons Adjutant Cluskey. 
 
 10th hussars Major Hon. F. Howard, and Lieutenant 
 George Genning. 
 
 11th dragoons Lieutenant Philips. 
 
 12th light dragoons J. Bettie, and Cornet Lockhart. 
 
 13th light dragoons Captain Gubbins. 
 
 15th hussars Major Griffiths ; Lieutenants Sherwood and 
 Buckley.
 
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 16th light dragoons Captain Buchanan, and Cornet 
 Alexander Hay. 
 
 1st light dragoons king's German legion Captain Peters ; 
 Lieutenants Sevelson and Kuhbraann, 
 
 2d light dragoons, king's German legion Captain Bulow, 
 and Cornet Draugmeister. 
 
 3d hussars, king's German legion Captains Kersenbruck, 
 Jansen ; Cornet Deiceman ; and Adjutant Bruggenrann. 
 
 Royal Artillery Captain Bolton. 
 
 King's German legion Lieutenant De Shaken. 
 
 l&t guards, 2d battalion Sir Francis D'Oyley, lieutenant- 
 colonel. 
 
 1st guards, 3d battalion Lieutenant-colonels Stables, 
 Thomas, and Ensign Pardoe. 
 
 Coldstream guards, 2d battalion Lieutenant Blackman. 
 
 3d guards, 2d battalion Captains Crawford, Ashton ; 
 Lieutenants Hon. Hastings, and Forbes. 
 
 1st foot, 3d battalion Lieutenant Young, and Ensign 
 Anderson. 
 
 23d foot, 1st battalion Captains Hawtyn (major), Charles 
 Joliffe, T. Farmer ; Lieutenant G. Fensham. 
 
 27th foot, 1st battalion Captain Holmes, and Ensign 
 S. Ireland. 
 
 28th foot Captain Meacham. 
 
 30th foot, 2d battalion Major Chambers; Captain 
 McNabb ; Lieutenants Beere, Prendergast ; Ensigns James 
 and BuUen, 
 
 33d foot Lieutenants Buck, Cameron, and Hart. 
 
 ^Oth foot, 1st battalion Major Holyland, and Captain 
 Fisher. , 
 
 52d foot Ensign Nettles. 
 
 69th foot Colonel ; Captains Hobhouse and 
 Blackwood.
 
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 71st toot Major L'Estrange, aide-de-camp to General 
 Pack ; Ensign Todd. 
 
 73d foot Captains Robertson and Kennedy ; Lieutenant 
 Hollis ; Ensigns Lowe and Page. 
 
 79th foot Lieutenants M'Pherson and Kennedy. 
 
 95th foot, 1st battalion Lieutenant E. D. Johnstone. 
 
 1st battalion king's German legion Captains Holzerman, 
 Marschalk, Goeben, and Lieutenant Albert. 
 
 1st line battalion king's German legion Captain Holle. 
 
 2d line battalion king's German legion Captain Tibe. 
 
 4th line battaHon king's German legion Captain Didel. 
 
 5th line battalion king's German legion Captain Wurmb, 
 and Scimck. 
 
 8th line battalion king's German legion Captains Voight 
 and Westernhagen ; Lieutenant Mareuholz. 
 
 Hanoverian general staff Brigade-major M. Hanburg. 
 
 2d battalion Duke of York's Lieutenant Uffel ; Ensign 
 Borghoff. 
 
 Foot battalion Grubenhagen Lieutenant-colonel Baron 
 Wurmb. 
 
 IstLuneberg battalion Captain Robert; Ensign de Plato. 
 
 Renstvode battalion Ensign Holt. 
 
 Ostomde battalion Ensign Schantz. 
 
 3d guards Captain Stother. 
 
 Note 70. 
 
 Every regiment in the British army was eager to dis- 
 tinguish itself. During the operations a Scotch regiment 
 was for a considerable time unemployed by any French 
 column, though exposed to a fire of round shot. The 
 officers, who had a complete view of the field, saw the 42d 
 and other battalions warmly engaged in charging. The
 
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 young men could not brook the contrast presented by their 
 inactivity : " it will," said they, " be the same now as it 
 always has been, the 42d will have the luck of it." This re- 
 giment was soon afterwards called into action, and behaved 
 with the greatest gallantry. It was reduced to a mere 
 skeleton, and the greater number of those youths whose 
 pulses beat so high for military fame fell gloriously in the 
 cause of their country. 
 
 Note 71 . 
 
 It is said that Napoleon had often openly confessed that 
 Wellington was the second general in the world ; for, as you 
 may naturally enough suppose, he very modestly reserved 
 the first place for himself. Nearly the last words, previous 
 to his leaving Paris, were, " I am going to measure swords 
 with this Wellington, and have no doubt but that I shall be 
 able to give a good account of him." 
 
 Note 72. 
 
 Napoleon has declared that the confederacy of the allies 
 was on the point of breaking at the eve of the battle of 
 Waterloo ; had he gained the victory, they would have been 
 broken asunder in eight and forty hours. 
 
 The brave Lieutenant-colonel R. Fitzgerald, of the 2d 
 life guards, while leading his squadron on to the charge 
 against the cuirassiers, had his head carried off by a cannon 
 shot ; yet he remained on his horse until he was pulled off by 
 two men belonging to his squadron. This is the second 
 circumstance of the kind we have had to record. 
 
 Note 73. 
 The Prussian general, Gneysenau, &c. under the immortal
 
 79 
 
 Blucher, pursued them to destruction ; they had not one 
 moment's rest. They were driven from nine bivouacks at 
 the point of the sword. 
 
 Note 74. 
 
 Near the place where the Duke of Brunswick fell, the enemy- 
 were overtaken in their flight, and literally cut to pieces by 
 the Prussians and Brunswickers. For the much lamented 
 death of their beloved chief, they were inspired with a ven- 
 geance that nothing could appease, but the annihilation of 
 the foe by whom he was slain. 
 
 The brave veteran Prince Blucher*s proclamation, after 
 penetrating into France by Beaumont : 
 
 " Brave officers and soldiers of the Lower Rhine ! 
 
 " You have done great things. Brave companions in 
 arms! You have fought two battles in three days. The 
 first was unfortunate, and yet your courage was not broken.^ 
 You have had to struggle with privations, but you have 
 borne them with fortitude. Immoveable in adverse fortune, 
 after the loss of a bloody battle you marched with firmness 
 to fight another ; relying on the God of battles, and full of 
 confidence in your commanders, as well as of perseverance 
 in your efforts against presumptuous and perjured enemies, 
 intoxicated with their victory. It was with these sentiments 
 you advanced to support the brave English, who were main- 
 taining the most arduous contest with unparalleled firmness. 
 But the hour which was to decide this great struggle was 
 struck, and has shown who was to conquer and to reign in 
 Europe, whether an adventurer or governments who are the 
 friends of order. The fate of the day was still undecided
 
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 when you appeared issuing from the forest which concealed 
 you from the enemy, to attack his rear with that coolness, 
 that firmness, that confidence, which characterises ex- 
 perienced soldiers, resolved to avenge the reverses they had 
 experienced two days before. There, as rapid as lightning, 
 you penetrated his almost wavering columns. Nothing could 
 stop you in the career of victory. The enemy, in his despair, 
 turned his artillery upon you ; but you poured death into his 
 ranks, and rushing upon with resistless fury, you threw 
 his battalions into confusion, scattering them in every di- 
 rection, and put them to complete rout. 
 
 " The enemy found himself obliged to abandon to you 
 several hundreds of cannon, and his army is dissolved. A 
 few days will suffice to annihilate these perjured legions, 
 who were coming to consummate the slavery and the spolia- 
 tion of the universe. 
 
 " All great commanders have regarded it as impossible 
 immediately to renew the combat with a beaten army. You 
 have proved that this opinion is ill founded; you have 
 proved that resolute warriors may be vanquished, but that 
 their valour is not shaken, 
 
 " Receive, then, my best thanks, incomparable soldiers, 
 objects of all my esteem. You have acquired a great re- 
 putation. The annals of Europe will eternize your triumphs. 
 It is on you, immoveable columns of the Prussian monarchy, 
 that the destinies of the king and his august house will for 
 ever repose. Never will Prussia cease to exist while your 
 sons and your grandsons resemble you. 
 
 (Signed) " Blucher."
 
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 Note 75. 
 
 Napoleon's friends, like himself, presuming upon certain 
 victory, provided a splendid dinner for him and suite, at 
 Brussels, on the ever memorable 18th of June, 1815. 
 
 Q,uery. Would his disappointed partisans have an ap- 
 petite to eat it in the absence of their fallen friend ? 
 
 Note 76. 
 
 Thus ended the battle of Waterloo, a battle that has 
 raised the victors to the very pinnacle of glory. 
 
 Never did France in the full plenitude of her power send into 
 the field a nobler army than that which fought at Waterloo. 
 An army animated by the most deadly hatred to their op- 
 ponents ; an army who had sworn to conquer or die ; an 
 army whose devotion to their chief was chivalrous and un- 
 bounded. They fought with a bravery and desperation that 
 nothing could resist, except those troops with whom they 
 had to contend. Complete confusion and rout ensued. Four 
 squares of the old imperial guard Napoleon had left to cover 
 his retreat, but these were unable to resist the overwhelming 
 force of their conquerors ; yet their noble defence excited 
 the admiration of their enemies. The Duke of Wellington, 
 wishing to prevent the useless sacrifice of their lives, sum- 
 moned them to surrender; but with a high sense of military 
 honour which, although carried to excess, we cannot but 
 admire, they refused to yield, and slowly retreating step by 
 step, were almost entirely annihilated ; with their destruction 
 the mighty contest ended. 
 
 Near La Belle Alliance the two great heroes, Wellington 
 and Blucher, met and embraced each other with transport. 
 Blucher proposed to continue the pursuit through the night, 
 
 M
 
 82 
 
 his troops being comparatively fresh. The Brunswickers, 
 although they had shared in the fatigues of the day, to re- 
 venge the death of their beloved prince, volunteered on this 
 service. Wellington recalled his troops, whom fatigue had 
 almost exhausted, having been more than twelve hours under 
 arms without food, &c. which they stood so much in need 
 of; they were drawn upon a rising ground, and gave the 
 Prussians three cheers as they passed to complete the work 
 of death. 
 
 The loss of the British and Hanoverians in killed and 
 wounded was about 10,000 men ; the Prussians and Bruns- 
 wickers are supposed to have lost in killed and wounded 
 about 14,000 men ; the troops of his majesty the King of the 
 Netherlands in killed and wounded about 6000 men. Total 
 in killed and wounded about 30,000 men. 
 
 The loss of the French was immense and incalculable. 
 Marshal Grouchy lost about 10,000 men. The loss at Wa- 
 terloo was about 60,000. Thus then in the short campaign 
 of four days the French lost in killed and wounded about 
 70,000 men; and thousands dispersed by the rapidity of 
 their flight never joined their regiments, consequently the 
 loss to the French army cannot be estimated at less than 
 80,000 fighting men, 300 pieces of cannon, and 500 caissons 
 at the least, in short the whole materiale of the army. 
 
 The following list of the hero of Waterloo's victories we 
 submit to the reader. 
 
 Roleia, August 17, 1808. 
 Yimiera, August 21 . 
 Oporto, May 12, 1809. 
 Talavera, July 27. 
 Busaco, September 27, 1810. 
 Coimbra, October 7.
 
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 Almeida, May 11, 1811. 
 
 Fuente de Onor, October 5. 
 
 Arroyo del Molino, October 28. 
 
 Cuidad Rodrigo, January 19, 1812. 
 
 Badajos, April 6. 
 
 Madrid, May 14. 
 
 Almarez, May 19. 
 
 Salamanca, June 22. 
 
 Castalla, May 12, 1813. 
 
 Vittoria, June 21. 
 
 Pyrenees, July 25. 
 
 St. Sebastian, September 9. 
 
 Bidassoa, October 9. 
 
 Pampeluna, October 31. 
 
 Neive, December 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. 
 
 Orthes, February 27, 1814. 
 
 Toulouse, April 10. 
 
 Quatre Bras, June 16, 1815. 
 
 Waterloo, June 18.
 
 ALPHA. 
 
 Anglesey, Marquis of, K. G. and G.C. B., Heut.-general. 
 
 Alava, Count, &c. &c. Spanish general. 
 
 Alten, Charles, Count, K. C. B. lieutenant-general. 
 
 Alten, Baron, major-general. 
 
 Adam, Sir F., K.C.B., major-general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Abercromby, Hon. A., C. B., Coldstream guards. 
 Askew, Henry, ^ foot guards, j-^^^^ ..iL*vL ^^ .<->-J^ 
 Arentsschildt, Baron F,, K. C. B. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Arbuthnot, Sir Robert , K. C. B., Coldstream guards. 
 
 Acheson, Hon. E., C. B., Coldstream guards. 
 
 Austen, Henry, 59th foot. 
 
 Aird, Thomas, royal waggon train. 
 
 Arguimbau, L., C. B., 1st foot. 
 
 AUix, Charles, grenadier guards.
 
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 B. 
 
 Blucher, his Highness Prince, field marshal, command- 
 ing the Prussian army. 
 
 Brunswick, Duke of, &c. &c. 
 
 Bulow, Count, &c. (Prussian) lieutenant-general. 
 
 Bylandt, Count de, (Netherlands). 
 
 Barnes, Sir E., K. C. B., major-general, and adjutant- 
 general on the continent. 
 
 Byng, Sir John, K. C. B., major-general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Barnard, Sir A. R, K. C. B,, rifle brigade. 
 Belson, Sir C. P., K. C. B. 
 
 Boreel, (Netherlands), 6th hussars. 
 Beaulieu, Viscount D., commandant du quartier general 
 of the Prince of Orange. 
 
 Bylevett, (Netherlands), royal artillery. 
 
 LIEDTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Barclay, Delancy, C. B., grenadier guards. 
 Berkeley, Sir G. H. F., K.C.B., 35th foot. 
 Bussche, Baron, C. B., king's German legion. 
 Bulow, Baron John, C. B., German legion. 
 Brook, Francis, C. B., 4th foot. 
 Best, Charles, German legion. 
 
 Broke, Sir C, K. C. B., per assistant quarter-master ge- 
 neral. 
 
 Burgh, Sir Ulysses, K. C.B., grenadier guards. 
 
 Brown, A., C. B., 79th foot. 
 
 Bailey, Morris William, C. B. 30th foot.
 
 87 
 
 Bowater, Edward, 3d foot guards. 
 Bussche, Baron Hans, C. B, German legion. 
 Blair, Thomas Hunter, 91st foot. 
 Bridger, James Paul, C.B., 12th dragoons. 
 Baring, George, C. B. German legion. 
 Beckwith, Charles, C. B., rifle brigade. 
 Bouchier, James, 11th dragoons. 
 Brooke, Lawrence, 13th dragoons. 
 Brown, Fielding, C. B., 40th foot. 
 Boyce, Shapland, C. B., 13th light dragoons. 
 Bean, royal artillery. 
 Brown, Hanoverian light artillery. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Bulow, John, (Brunswick). 
 
 Belli, I. H. 16th dragoons. 
 
 Boden, Ant., German legion. 
 
 Brayman, F. L., C. B., German legion. 
 
 Boyce, William, 2d life guards. 
 
 Burgh, Adam, 44th foot. 
 
 Bowles, George, Coldstream guards. 
 
 Bentinck, C. A. F., Coldstream guards. 
 
 Baynes, G. M., royal artillery. 
 
 Brome, I., royal artillery. 
 
 Browne, T. G. royal artillery. 
 
 C. 
 
 Clinton, Sir Henry, G. C. B., lieutenant-general. 
 Cooke, Sir G., K. C.B., major-general. 
 Colville, Sir C, G. C. B., Heutenant-general. 
 Collaert, B., &c. (Netherlands), lieutenant-general.
 
 88 
 
 Calvert, Sir H., Bart., G. C. B., A.G., lieutenant-general. 
 Chasse, &c. (Netherlands), lieutenant-general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Campbell, Sir C, K. C. B., Coldstream guards. 
 Campbell, Sir N. K., Corsican rangers. 
 Colborne, Sir J., K. C. B., 52d foot. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Canning, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington. 
 Clifton, Arthur B., C.B., 1st dragoons. 
 Colquitt, Godwin, C. B., grenadier guards. 
 Cameron, Alexander, C. B., rifle brigade. 
 Cameron, Alexander, C. B., 1st light infantry. 
 Campbell, Colin, C.B., 1st foot. 
 Clarke, J. Blake, C. B., 2d dragoons. 
 Campbell, Sir G,, Bart., C. B., 6th foot. 
 Cameron, Duncan, C. B., 79th foot. 
 Chalmers, William, 57th foot. 
 Churchill, C. H., grenadier guards. 
 Campbell, John, C. B. 42d foot. 
 Campbell, William, C. B., 23d foot. 
 Childers, Michael, 11th dragoons. 
 Cutcliffe, J. M., C. B., 23d dragoons. 
 Calvert, Felix, C.B., 32d foot. 
 Cheney, Edward, Watteville's regiment. 
 Cooke, Sir R. H., C. B., grenadier guards. 
 Curzon, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington. 
 Cleves, king's German horse artillery. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Campbell, Patrick, 32d foot.
 
 89 
 
 Callander, A. J., 91st foot. 
 Croker, Richard, 18th dragoons. 
 Clements, Hon. Robert, grenadier guards. 
 Clayton, William Robert, 40th foot. 
 Campbell, Dugald, 92d foot. 
 
 D. 
 
 Dornberg, Sir William, K. C. B., major-general. 
 D'Aubreme, A., Chevalier, Adjutant - general, &c. 
 (Netherlands), major-general. 
 Du Vivier, major-general. 
 De Lancy, &c., major-general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Douglas, Sir William, K. C. B., 91st foot. 
 De Bruyn, 2d regiment cuirassiers. 
 Detmers, Le Chevalier H., (Netherlands). 
 D'Oyley, Sir Francis, K. C. B. 
 De Butler. 
 Duplatt. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Dick, Robert Henry, C. B., 4<2d foot. 
 Dickson, Sir Jer., K.C. B., perm, assistant quarter- 
 master general. 
 
 Dalrymple, S. C, C. B., 15th dragoons. 
 D'Oyley, H., grenadier guards. 
 Dalmer, Francis, 13th foot. 
 De Wissell, Aug., C. B., German legion. 
 Dashwood, Charles, 3d foot guards. 
 Dorville, Philip, C.B., 1st dragoons. 
 
 N
 
 Dawkins, Henry, Coldstream guards. 
 
 De Robertson, William, C. B,, German legion. 
 
 Dalmer, Thomas, C.B., 23d foot. 
 
 De Wissell, Fred., C. B., German legion, 
 
 Davies, J. H., 1st foot guards. 
 
 Dawson, Hon. G. L., C. B., 1st dragoon guards. 
 
 Drummond, William, 3d foot guards. 
 
 Douglas, Niel, C. B., 79th foot. 
 
 Dance, Charles Webb, 2d life guards. 
 
 Darling, W. L., 2d German battalion. 
 
 Dumaresq, H., 9th foot. 
 
 De Jonqueres, Charles, C. B,, German legion. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 De Muller, M., German legion. 
 Drake, W. T., royal horse guards. 
 Darling, W. L. 2d garrison battalion. 
 Deckery, Baron William, German legion. 
 De Dreves, Lewis, German legion. 
 Dynely, Thomas, royal artillery. 
 Diggle, Charles, 82d foot. 
 Drake, William T3n"whitt, royal horse guards. 
 Debl, Sichart Philip, German legion. 
 Douglas, James John, 15th dragoons. 
 ' Dansey, C. C, royal artillery. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 EUey, Sir John, K. C. B., royal horse guards, and de- 
 puty adjutant general on the continent. 
 Endorf, hussars.
 
 91 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLOKELS. 
 
 Elphinsone, W. Keith, C. B., 33d foot. 
 
 Egerton, Richard, 34th foot. 
 
 Evans, Delary, 5th West India regiment. 
 
 Evatt, George, 55th foot. 
 
 Elphinstone, James D., Major Watteville's regiment. 
 
 Erskine, Hon. E. S., 2d Ceylon regiment. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Ellison, Robert, 1st foot guards. 
 Eeles, William, rifle brigade. 
 
 F. 
 
 Frederick, his Royal Highness, Prince of the Nether- 
 lands, general. 
 Fuller, killed. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Ferrier, 1st life guards. 
 Fitzgerald, 2d life guards. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Fead, George, C. B., grenadier guards. 
 Freemantle, John, C. B., Coldstream guards. 
 Friedericks, Aug. German legion. 
 FuUerton, James, C. B., rifle brigade. 
 
 MAJOR. 
 
 Fitzroy, Lord Charles, 1st guards.
 
 92 
 
 G. 
 
 Gneysenau, &c. (Prussian) general. 
 Ghigny, E.G. C, Chevalier de St. Louis, (Netherlands), 
 lieutenant-general. 
 
 Grant, Sir Charles, K. C. B., major-general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Gordon, Hon. Alexander, Knt., and aide-de-camp to 
 the Duke of Wellington. 
 Gambler, &c. (Netherlands). 
 Gomm, Sir W., K. C. B., Coldstream guards. 
 Goodman, Stephen, 48th foot. 
 Gruben, P. Baron, C. B., German legion. 
 Grant, Colquhoun, 11th foot. 
 
 Greenock, Lord E. M., assistant quarter-master general. 
 Grant, James, 18th dragoons. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL. 
 
 Griffiths, (killed), 15th dragoons. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Grove, Henry, 23d dragoons. 
 Gerrard, Thomas, 23d dragoons. 
 Gunthorpe, James, grenadier guards. 
 Goulburn, Frederick, 104th foot. 
 
 CAPTAIN. 
 
 Geys, (Netherlands), royal horse artillery.
 
 9^: 
 
 H. 
 
 Henkel, &c. (Prussian), general. 
 Hinuber, general. 
 
 Hill, R. Lord, G. C.B., lieutenant-general. 
 Halket, Sir Colin, K. C.B., major-general. 
 Hacke, &c. (Prussian), lieutenant-general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Hepburn, Francis, C. B,, 3d guards. 
 
 Halkett, 2d battalion Hanoverian infantry. 
 
 Harris, Hon. W. G., C. B. 
 
 Harvey, F. B., C.B., 14th dragoons. 
 
 Home, Francis, 3d guards. 
 
 Hiller, commanding 16th battalion (Prussian). 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Hardinge, Sir H., K. C. B., grenadier guards. 
 
 Hamilton, A., C. B., SOth foot. 
 
 Hamerton, John M., C. B., i4th fqot. 
 
 Hicks, John, C. B., 32d foot. 
 
 Hill, Sir T. N., K. C. B., grenadier guards. 
 
 Hill, Sir R. C, Knt., C. B., royal horse guards. 
 
 Hartman, Sir J., K. C.B., German legion. 
 
 Heise, A., C. B., German legion. 
 
 Hay, Lord James, grenadier guards. 
 
 Hay, James, C. B., 16th dragoons. 
 
 Hartwig, F., C.B., German legion. 
 
 Hill, J. H. E., C.B., 23d foot. 
 
 Hill, C, royal horse guards. 
 
 Hankin, Thomas P., 2d dragoons.
 
 9*' 
 
 
 Hare, John, C. B., 27th foot. 
 
 Hamilton, A,, 4th West India regiment. 
 
 Hoysted, F. W. 59th foot. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Haines, Charles, 32d foot. 
 
 Hoste, Sir George, Knt., C. B., royal engineers. 
 
 Holmes, George W., 92d foot. 
 
 Hancock, Skinner, 15th dragoons. 
 
 Hulsemann, Hon. F., German legion. 
 
 Howard, Robert, 30th foot. 
 
 Hill, Lord Arthur William, 2d dragoons. 
 
 Hesketh, Robert Bamford, 3d guards. 
 
 Howard, Hon. , 10th light dragoons. 
 
 Hodge, 7th hussars. 
 
 Hutcheson, F., royal artillery. 
 
 CAPTAIN. 
 
 Harding, R., royal artillery. 
 
 I. 
 
 Ireland, &c. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Irving, William, 28th foot. 
 Irby, Hon. H. E., 2d life guards. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jagow, &c. (Prussian) general. 
 Johnstone, G. major-general. 
 Juergass, (Prussian), general.
 
 95 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL. 
 
 Jones, Arthur, C. B., 71st foot. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Jessop, John, C. B., 4<4th foot. 
 Johnstone, Charles, 71st foot. 
 Jackson, James, 37th foot. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kellerman, (Prussian), general. 
 Kruse, Baron de, (Nassau) major-general. 
 Kilmansegge, Count, major-general. 
 Kempt, Sir James, K.C.B., major-general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Kerrison, Sir E., Knt., C. B., 7th dragoons. 
 Kranchenberg, George, C. B., German legion. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Kelly, Dawson, C. B., 73d foot. 
 Keightley, John, 23d foot. 
 Keight, J. Thomas, C. B., 51st foot. 
 Kelly, 54th foot. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Kelly, 1st life guards. 
 
 Kublman, R. A., attached to king's German legion. 
 
 Keane, Edward, 7th dragoons.
 
 L, 
 
 Losthin, &c. (Prussian), general. 
 Lambert, Sir J., K.C.B., major-general. 
 Lyon, Sir James, K.C.B., major-general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Langrehr. 
 
 Lazzare, (Netherlands), royal artillery. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS, 
 
 Linsengen, William Baron, C. B., German legion. 
 Lygon, Hon. E. P., C.B., 2d life guards. 
 Lutterman, Fred., C. B., German legion. 
 Llewellyn, Richard, C. B., 28th foot. 
 Latour, P. A., C.B., 23d dragoons. 
 Leach, Jonathan, C.B., rifle corps. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Lux, (Netherlands), artillery. 
 Lindsey, Henry, 69th foot, 
 Lutyens, Benjamin, 11th dragoons. 
 Levven, Henry Ross, 32d foot. 
 Love, J. R, 32d foot. 
 Logan, Joseph, rifle brigade. 
 
 M. 
 
 Maitland, Sir P., K.C.B. major-general. 
 
 Muffling, general. 
 
 Munster, Count, (Hanoverian), general.
 
 COLONEL. 
 
 M'Mahon, Thomas, 17th foot. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS, r -. r , , 
 
 M'Kennen, D., Coldstream guards. 
 
 Manners, Lord R., C. B., 10th dragoons. 
 
 Murray, Hon. H., C.B., 18th dragoons. 
 
 March, Charles Earl of, 52d foot. 
 
 Maydell, Charles Baron, German legion. 
 
 Macdonald, Donald, C. B., 92d foot. 
 
 Mercer, Douglas, C.B., 3d guards. 
 
 Macdonald, A., C B., royal artillery. 
 
 Muttlebury, George, C. B., 69th foot. 
 
 Mitchell, James, C. B., 92d foot. o:: 
 
 Money, Archibald, C.B 11th dragoons. 
 
 Miller, George, C.B., rifle brigade. 
 
 May, Sir J., K. C. B., royal artillery. ^JJcoioM 
 
 Muller, 1st royal Scots. ^ 'lovA 
 
 Mitchell, H. H., C. B., 51st foot. 
 
 Marley, George, 14th foot. 
 
 Muller, George, C.B., German legion. 
 
 Murray, G. Home, 16th dragoons. 
 
 Macdonald, Robert, 1st foot. 
 
 Macdonell, James, C. B., Coldstream guards. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Mercer, A. C, royal artillery. 
 Miller, F. S., C. B., 6th dragoons. 
 Massey, Hugh, 1st foot. 
 Macahster, Charles, 35th foot. 
 Macalister, James, 1 3th light dragoons.
 
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 Myer, P., German legion. 
 Mylne, Thomas, 79th foot. 
 Menzies, Archibald, 42d foot. 
 Madox, H., 6th dragoons. 
 Macdonald, Alexander, royal artillery. 
 
 CAPTAIN. 
 
 Macbean, F., royal artillery.. 
 
 N. 
 
 North Britain, &c. 
 
 Nassau Weilburg, hereditary Prince of, (Prussian) 
 general. 
 
 Nostitz, Count de, aide-de-camp to Prince Blucher. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Norcott, A. G. R., C. B., rifle brigade* 
 Nicolay, William, C. B., R. S. corps. 
 
 O. 
 
 Orange, his Royal Highness the Prince of, G. C. B., &c. 
 general. 
 
 Olfermans, (Brunswick), major-general. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 O'Malley, George, C. B,, 44-th foot.
 
 99 
 
 P. 
 
 Prussia, his Royal Highness Prince William of, general. 
 Pozzo di Borgo, (Russian), general. 
 Pirch, &c. (Prussian), general. 
 Picton, Sir Thomas, lieutenant-general. 
 Perponcher, de, Chevalier H., (Netherlands), lieutenant- 
 general. 
 
 Ponsonby, Sir WilUam, major-general. 
 Pack, Sir Dennis, K. C. B., major-general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Portarlington, Earl of, 23d dragoons. 
 Ponsonby, F. C, C.B., 12th dragoons. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Percy, Hon. H., C. B., 14<th dragoons. 
 Parkinson, E., 33d foot. 
 Petersdorff, Charles, C. B., German kgion. 
 Petter, A., (Netherlands). 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Parker, I. C. G., royal artillery. 
 Pakenham_, W., royal artillery. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quadratic, relating to the squares invincible against 
 every attack of the enemy. 
 Quentin, George, C. B., colonel 10th dragoons.
 
 vm 
 
 H, 
 
 Richmond, Duke of, K. G., &c. &c. 
 Roeder, &c. (Prussian)^ general. 
 Ryssel, &c, (Prussian) general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Reneault, 2d cuirassiers, Belgic. 
 Reynell, Thomas, C.B., 71st foot. 
 Ramdahr. 
 
 LIEUTBNANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Ross, John, C. B,, rifle brigade. 
 
 Rooke, H. W., C. B,, 3d foot guards. 
 
 Rowan, C, C. B., 52d foot. 
 
 Ross, Sir H. D., K. C. B., 3d foot guards. 
 
 Rice, Samuel, C.B., 51st foot. 
 
 Reeve, J., grenadier guards. 
 
 Reh, F., C. B., German legion. 
 
 Reitzenstein, Baron A., C. B., German legion. 
 
 RadclifFe, Charles E., 1st dragoons. 
 
 Ross, Sir H. D., K. C. B., royal artillery. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Ramsay, royal artillery. 
 
 Rogers, T., royal artillery. 
 
 Ryan, Matthew, 30th foot. 
 
 Reed, Samuel, 71st foot. 
 
 Rudford, George Lewis, German legion. 
 
 Radcliffe, 79th foot.
 
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 CAPTAIN. 
 
 Itudyerd, S., royal artillery. 
 
 S. 
 
 Somerset, Lord R. E. H., K. C. B., major-general. 
 Steinmitz, &c. (Prussian), general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Stewart, Hon. W., C. B., grenadier guards. 
 
 Somerset, Lord F. J. H., K. C. B,, grenadier guards. 
 
 Stratton, Joseph, C. B., 6th dragoons. 
 
 Saltoun, Lord Alexander, C. B., grenadier guards. 
 
 Smyth, J. C, royal engineers. 
 
 Stepburn, Chevalier F. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Sleigh, James W., C.B., 11th dragoons. 
 Stanhope, Hon. James, grenadier guards. 
 Smith, Hon. G., C. B., rifle brigade. 
 Staveley, William, C. B., R. S. corps. 
 Scoyell, Sir G., K. C. B., R. S. corps. 
 Smith, James W., C. B., royal artillery. 
 Slessor, John, 35th foot. 
 Streatfield, Thomas, grenadier guards. 
 Sowerby, T., Coldstream guards. 
 Stritton, Semp. 40th foot. 
 Symphor, A., German legion. 
 Stables, Edward, 1st foot guards. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Sinclair, J., royal artillery.
 
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 Sandham, C. F., royal artillery. 
 
 Somerset, Lord J. H., Major Watteville's regiment. 
 
 Shaw, James, -iOth foot. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Scott, T., royal artillery. 
 Stopford, W. H., royal artillery. 
 Stanway, F., royal artillery. 
 
 T. 
 
 Tactics, &c. 
 
 Torrens, Sir H., K. C. B., major-general. 
 
 Thielman, (Prussian), general. 
 
 Trip, A. D., Chevalier, (Netherlands) major-general. 
 
 COLONEL. 
 
 Trip, (Netherlands), royal artillery. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Townsend, Hon. H. G. P., grenadier guards. 
 Torrens, Robert, C. B., 1st West India regiment. 
 Taylor, Thomas William, 10th dragoons. 
 Thoyts, J. royal horse guards. 
 Thackwell, James, 15th dragoons. 
 Thornhill, William, 7th dragoons. 
 Tidy, F. 8., C. B. 14th foot. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Thwaites, William, 51st foot. 
 Turner, Michael, 1st dragoon guards. 
 Thackwell, Joseph, 15th dragoons.
 
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 Tyler, John, 93d foot. 
 
 Thompson, Alexander, royal enghieers, 
 
 U. 
 
 Unett, G. W., major, royal artillery. 
 
 V. 
 
 Vincent, Baron, (Austrian) general. 
 Vanhope, (Netherlands), general. 
 Van Merle, &c. (Netherlands), major-general. 
 Vivian, Sir H., K. C. B., major-general. 
 Vandeleur, Sir J. O., K. C. B., major-general. 
 Von Holzendorf, (Russian), general. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Von Wurmb, (Netherlands). 
 Vincke, 5th brigade Hanoverian. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONKLS, 
 
 Vigoureux, C. A,, C.B., 30th foot. 
 
 Villars, Baron Constant de, aide-de-camp to his Royal 
 Highness (Netherlands). 
 
 Vander Smissen, Baron, (Netherlands), major royal 
 horse artillery. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Vernon, Robert, 2d dragoons. 
 Verner, William, 7th dragoons. 
 VanhofFt, adjutant, Prince of Orange.
 
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 Wellington, Duke of, Prince of Waterloo, K. G., 
 G. C. B., F. M., commander-in-chief of the allied armies. 
 
 COLONELS. 
 
 Wood, Sir George Adam, Knt. and C. B., commanded 
 royal artillery. 
 
 Woodford, A. George, C.B., Coldstream guards, acting 
 adj utant-genei al . 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Waters, John, C. B., Coldstream guards. 
 Waldegrave, J. E., 54th foot. 
 Woodford, J. G., grenadier guards, 
 Windham, Henry, 19th dragoons. 
 Wilkins, George, C. B., rifle brigade. 
 West, Charles, 3d foot guards. 
 Walker, Leslie, C.B., 71st foot. 
 W^illiamson, J. S., C. B., royal artillery. 
 Watson, J. Lewis, 54th foot. 
 
 Webster, aide-de-camp to his Royal Highness the Prince 
 of Orange. 
 
 MAJORS. 
 
 Whinyates, E. C, rocket brigade. 
 Welsh, James, 91st foot. 
 Wood, Charles, 10th dragoons. 
 Wilmerding, Lewis, German legion. 
 Wildman, Thomas, 7th dragoons.
 
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 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Webber, William, royal artillery, 
 Walcott, E. Y., Hanoverian brigade. 
 
 Y. 
 
 York, his Royal Highness Duke of, K. G., G. C. B., 
 F. M., commander-in-chief of his Britannic Majesty's 
 forces. 
 
 Z. 
 
 Zeal of the forces, perhaps never exceeded. 
 Zeithen, Count, (Prussian), lieutenant-general.
 
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