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Wellington's army exceeded 21,000, including 1200 officers, more than two hundred of whom, with upwards of six thousand rank and file, perished in the

Orange, Lieutenant Generals the Earl of Uxbridge and Sir Charles Alten, Major Generals Sir Frederick Adam, Sir Edward Barnes, Sir William Dornberg, Sir Colin Halket, Sir James Kempt, Sir Denis Pack, and Cooke; and Brigadier General Hardinge, wounded.

1st Life Guards.- Lieutenant Colonel Ferrier, killed.

2d Life Guards.-Lieutenant Colonel Fitzgerald, killed.

Royal Horse Guards.-Major Packe, killed.—Colonel Sir John Elley, Lieutenant Colonels Sir R. C. Hill, and Clement Hill, wounded.

1st Dragoon Guards.-Colonel Fuller, Major Bringhurst, killed.

1st Royal Dragoons.-Major Graham, killed.-Major Radclyffe, wounded.

2d (Scotch Greys.)-Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton, Major Reignolds, killed.— Lieutenant Colonels Hankin and Clarke, Majors Poole and Vernon, wounded.

6th (Enniskillen.)— Lieutenant Colonel Miller, wounded.

7th Hussars.-Majors Hodge and Thornhill, wounded.

10th Hussars.-Major the Hon. F. Howard, killed.-Colonel Quentin, wounded. 12th Light Dragoons.-Colonel the Hon. F. Ponsonby, wounded.

13th Light Dragoons.-Lieutenant Colonel Boyce, wounded.

15th Hussars.-Major Griffith, killed.- Lieutenant Colonel Dalrymple, wounded. 16th Light Dragoons.-Lieutenant Colonel Hay, wounded.

23d Light Dragoons.-Majors Cutcliffe and Gerrard, wounded.

1st Light Dragoons, King's German Legion.-Lieutenant Colonel Baron Bulow, and Major Baron Reitzenstein, wounded.

2d Light Dragoons, King's German Legion.-Lieutenant Colonels De Jonquieres and Baron Marsdell, wounded.

3d Hussars, King's German Legion.-Lieutenant Colonel Meyer, wounded. Royal Artillery.-Majors Beane, Cairnes, and Ramsay, killed.-Colonel Napier, Majors Bull, Lloyd, Macdonald, and Parker, wounded.

Royal Artillery, King's German Legion.-Major Symphen, wounded.

1st Foot Guards.-Lieutenant Colonels Sir F. D'Oyly, Miller, Milnes, Stables, and Thomas, killed.-Colonels Askew, the Hon. William Stewart, Lieutenant Colonels Sir Henry Bradford, Canning, Cooke, D'Oyly, Fead, and the Hon. H. G. Townsend, wounded.

2d (Coldstream) Foot-Guards.-Colonel the Hon. A. Abercromby, Lieutenant Colonels Macdonnel and Wyndham, wounded.

3d Foot-Guards.-Lieutenant Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, killed.--Lieuteant Colonels Bowater, Dashwood, M'Kinnon, and West, wounded.

1st Foot, (3d battalion) -Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, Majors Arguimbeau, Massey, and Macdonald, wounded.

4th Foot.-Lieutenant Colonel Wilson, wounded.

field, while numbers afterwards died of their wounds. The casualties of the Prussian army were still more numerous; their loss at the battles of Ligny, Wavre, and Waterloo amounted, according to their official returns, to 33,132 men, of whom near 6000 were killed, about 16,000 wounded, and 11,000 missing. As the French took few 23rd Foot.-Colonel Sir H. W. Ellis, and Major Hawtyn, killed.-Lieutenant-Colonel Hill, wounded.

27th Foot.-Major Hare, wounded.

28th Foot.-Major Meacham, killed.-Majors Irving, and Llewellyn, wounded, 30th Foot.-Major Chambers, killed.- Lieutenant-Colonels Hamilton, and Bailey, wounded.

32d Foot.-Major Toole, wounded.

33rd Foot.-Major Parkinson, wounded.

35th Foot.-Lieutenant-Colonel Sir G. F. Berkeley wounded.

40th Foot.- Major Hey land, killed.

42d Foot. --Colonel Sir Robert Macara, and Major Davidson, killed.-Lieutenant Colonel Dick, wounded.

44th Foot.-Lieutenant-Colonels Hammerton, O'Malley, and Major Jessop, wounded.

52d Foot.-Lieutenant-Colonel Rowan, and Major Love, wounded.

54th Foot.-Major Crofton, killed.

69th Foot. Colonel Morice, killed.-Majors Lindsay and Watson, wounded. 71st Foot. Major L'Estrange, killed.-Colonel Reynell, Lieutenant-Colonel Jones, and Major Johnstone, wounded.

73d Foot.-Major Maclean, killed. Colonel Harris, Lieutenant-Colonel Cameron, wounded,

79th Foot.-Lieutenant Colonels Brown, Cameron, and Douglas, wounded. 90th Foot.-Lieutenant Colonel Currie, killed.

91st Foot.-Major Blair, wounded.

92d Foot. Colonel Cameron, killed, -Lieutenant-Colonels Macdonald, and Mitchell, wounded.

95th (Rifles).-Majors Ecles and Smyth, killed.-Colonels Sir A. F. Barnard and Wilkins, Lieutenant-Colonels Norcott and Ross, Majors Beckwith, Cameron Fullerton, and Miller, wounded.

German Legion, Line,-Colonels Duplat, and Baron Ompteda, Major Chuden, Claud, and Leake, killed,-Lieutenant-Colonel De Schroeder, Majors Roden and Robertson, wounded.

German Legion, Light Infantry.-Major Basewell, killed.-Major Baron Busche, wounded,

4th West India Regiment. --Major Hamilton, wounded.

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prisoners, it is probable that the great majority of the missing should be reckoned among the slain. The whole of the Combined Army therefore suffered a diminution of number during this short

Regimental loss of the British Army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, at the battles of Quatre Bras, and Waterloo, and in the subsequent Operations to the 26th of June 1815, with the Effective Strength of each Regiment at the opening of the Campaign, on the 15th of June.

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campaign, exceeding 54,000 men.

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loss can never be accurately ascertained-suffice it,

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No official returns of the loss of the Brunswick troops have been exhibited, but

it is conjectured to have been about the number stated above.

however, to to say, that of as fine an army as ever marched from the French frontier, composed of 150,000 veterans in the bighest state of discipline, fully equipped in all the munitions of war, and enthusiastically devoted to the chief who had so often led them to victory, scarcely 50,000 were collected after their flight from the Netherlands: thus 100,000 men must have been lost by the sword, captivity, or desertion. Seven or eight thousand prisoners, including Count Lobau and General Cambrone, were taken by the Allies, together with the whole of their artillery, baggage, and ammunition-in short, every thing that was necessary to the equipment of an army.

The stupendous events of this memorable campaign of four days, have no parallel in the history of Europe, whether we consider the talents and bravery of the generals and troops on both sides, or the vitally important consequences to the civilized world with which they were connected. Never did two armies contend for a prize more valuable— the preservation of the peace of Europe, so lately

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