NAPOLEONIC ARCHIVE

Waterloo Memoirs

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With the 69th in the Waterloo Campaign.

At Quatre Bras the 69th lost their Kings Colour. This account includes Ensign Ainslies memoir and tells the story of the Colours return.

Waterloo Battlefield Guide

Battlefield Guide to Waterloo

By Stephen Maughan

Fully Illustrated with numerous photographs of the battlefield and first hand accounts of the battle

 

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At Waterloo with the Cameron Highlanders. Dixon Vallence served in no.6 company of the 1st battalion of the Cameron Highlanders during the battles of Quatre-Bras and Waterloo, where he was listed as “severely wounded”,

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With the Red Lancers at Waterloo.

General de Brack was a captain in the Red Lancers at the time of Waterloo, and A.D.C. to General Colbert. He vividly describes the French defeat and retreat.

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Household Cavalry in the Waterloo Campaign.

An account of the Household Brigades part in the war of 1815, including 12 colour plates, some detailing Lord Hills uniform

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Colonel Bro’s account of the Waterloo campaign, and the counter attack of the 4th Lancers, against the Union Brigade.

He also gives details of life in Paris, after the second restoration.

 

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Scots Greys at Waterloo. Including the account of Sergeant Major Dickson, along with letters of other members of the Regiment

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Life Guardsman Shaw of Waterloo. Written by Major Knollys, an account of the life of John Shaw, hero of Waterloo, who fought with the second Life Guards.

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De Craan Waterloo Map.

With notes on the Battle and troop Dispositions. The most famous map of the battle of Waterloo, with its notes translated by Gore.

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With the Guards at Hougoumont. Matthew clay served in the Light Company of the 3rd Foot Guards, and as such, was in the thick of the action inside the Chateau of Hougoumont.

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Letters and Journals of Sir William Maynard Gomm in the Waterloo campaign.

Gomms position on the staff gave him an overview of the 1815 campaign.

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Archibald Hamilton      At Waterloo with the Scots Greys

charged with the Scots Greys at Waterloo, and leaves us this account of his, and the Regiments, exploits during the Waterloo campaign.

 

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