23 LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR T. PICTON fell in the

24 The Greys and 92d cheered and huzzard "Scotland

30 WATERLOO, 8 P. M. Right of the British line. The Duke of Wellington ordering the general advance, at the time the Enemy's columns were repulsed by the Guards, and taken in flank by Gen. Adam's Brigade. The wood of Hougomont is on the right, and the Observatory in the distance

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WATERLOO, 8 P. M. Centre of the British line. The Marquis of Anglesey, on the general advance, directing the Brigades of cavalry on the right of La Haye Sainte. La Belle Alliance, the road to Charleroi, and the spires of Planchenois in the distance 32 "NOW EVERY MAN MUST ADVANCE!" 33 "It was at LA BELLE ALLIANCE, pierced through and through, they accidently met" 34 The retreat at Genappe. "The Duke fell yesterday,

and thou shall also bite the dust"

61 2

39 1

90 1

TO THE

BATTLE OF WATERLOO,

WITH

CIRCUMSTANTIAL DETAILS,

BY A NEAR OBSERVER;

CHIEFLY COMMUNICATED BY

STAFF AND REGIMENTAL OFFICERS,

PRESENT AT THE BATTLE,

WITH THE

NAMES OF THE OFFICERS

WHO WERE EMPLOYED IN THE

CAMPAIGN OF THE NETHERLANDS, 1815.

THE Battle of Waterloo has formed one of the greatest epochs in history and politics. Every thing which relates to the immortal day of the 18th of June, 1815, is secure of fixing our attention. The histories of the campaign of four days, which has put an end to the power of the modern Gengis Khan, may well be multiplied; for all are insufficient to satisfy the public curiosity, as they have appeared; and new works are offering themselves on all sides, and in every form. The fields of Waterloo; the farms of Mont St. Jean, La Haye Sainte, and La Belle Alliance, and the ruins of the chateau of Hougomont (more properly Gomont), have already become classic soil. They are visited at this day by all travellers, as the world went formerly to visit holy places. People set out from Brussels, and the three leagues which are to be passed through the forest of Soignies, like a new Via Sacra, by inspiring a self-recollection, prepare the minds of those who perform this species of pilgrimage for the strong emotions which they are VOL. II.

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