Letters from the Battle of Waterloo: Unpublished Correspondence by Allied Officers from the Siborne Papers
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Letters from the Battle of Waterloo: Unpublished Correspondence by Allied Officers from the Siborne Papers
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Overview
By presenting more than 200 previously unpublished accounts by Allied officers who fought at the battle, this collection goes right back to the primary source material. In the letters the Allied officers recount where they were and what they saw. Gareth Glover has provided historical background information but lets the officers speak for themselves as they reveal exactly what happened in June 1815.
Originally sent to, and at the request of, Captain W Siborne, then in the process of building his famous model of the battle, these letters have remained unread in the Siborne papers in the British Library. A small selection was published in Waterloo Letters in 1891 but much of vast historical significance did not see the light then and has remained inaccessible until now. Glover now presents this remarkable collection which includes letters here by Major Baring, George Bowles, Edward Whinyates, John Gurwood and Edward Cotton as well as letters by Hanoverian and King's German Legion officers.
This is a veritable treasure trove of material on the battle and one which will mean that every historian's view of the battle will need correcting.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784383497 |
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| Publisher: | Pen and Sword |
| Publication date: | 01/04/2019 |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
About the Author
After reading History at Cambridge, John Hussey spent 30 years working for BP around the world including the Congo in the 1960s and Nigeria in the 1970s. He was awarded an OBE in 1971. He has written many articles on British military history, mainly on the Napoleonic and First World Wars, and served as a member of the International Historical Committee for the restoration of the Waterloo Battlefield. He is the author of Malborough: Hero of Blenheim (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004) and is a Fellow of the Royal Historial Society.
Table of Contents
Foreword John Hussey 7
Preface 10
Historical Background 14
Acknowledgements 23
List of Abbreviations: medals and orders 24
Circular Letter to Surviving Waterloo officers 25
The Letters (listed by source)
The General Staff 27
King's German Legion Staff 38
The Cavalry 44
1st Cavalry Brigade 45
The 1st Life Guards 45
The 2nd Life Guards 45
The Royal Horse Guards 54
2nd Cavalry Brigade 56
The 1st or Royal Dragoons 56
The 2nd or Scots Greys 59
The 6th or Iniskilling Dragoons 62
3rd, Cavalry Brigade 65
The 1st Light Dragoons KGL 65
The 2nd Light Dragoons KGL 69
4th Cavalry Brigade 74
The 11th Light Dragoons 74
The 12th Tight Dragoons 76
The 16th Light Dragoons 76
5th Cavalry Brigade 79
The 7th Hussars 79
6th Cavalry Brigade 81
The 10th Hussars 81
The 18th Hussars 108
The 1st Hussars KGL 123
7th Cavalry Brigade 125
The 3rd Hussars KGL 125
The Artillery 129
The Royal Artillery Staff 129
The Royal Horse Artillery 130
Lieutenant Colonel Webber Smith's Troop 130
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Robert Gardiner's Troop 130
Captain Edward Whinyates's Troop 131
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Hew Ross's Troop 140
Major Beane's Troop 141
The Royal Artillery 142
Captain Bolton's Battery 142
Captain Sinclair's Battery 144
Major Roger's Battery 144
KGL Artillery 145
Major A Sympher's Horse Artillery Troop 145
Major Kuhlmann's Horse Artillery Troop 146
Captain A. Cleeve's Foot Battery 147
The Hanoverian Artillery 149
Captain von Rettberg's Foot Artillery Battery 149
First Division 157
1st Infantry Brigade 157
The 1st Foot Guards, 2nd & 3rd Battalions 159
2nd Infantry Brigade 169
The Coldstream Guards, 2nd Battalion 169
The 3rd Foot Guards, 2nd Battalion 171
Second Division 178
3rd Infantry Brigade 178
The 52nd Regiment, 1st Battalion 180
The 95th Rifles, 2nd Battalion 190
1st Infantry Brigade KGL 197
The 1st Line Battalion KGL 197
The 2nd Line Battalion KGL 200
The 3rd Line Battalion KGL 203
The 4th Lure Battalion KGL 208
Third Division 213
5th Infantry Brigade 214
The 30th Regiment, 2nd Battalion 214
The 33rd Regiment 216
The 69th Regiment, 2nd Battalion 222
The 73rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion 223
2nd Infantry Brigade KGL 225
The 1st Light Battalion KCL 225
The 2nd Light Battalion KGL 241
The 5th Line Battalion KGL 254
The 8th Line Battalion KGL 257
Fourth Division 261
4th Infantry Brigade 261
The 14th Regiment, 3rd Battalion 261
The 23rd Fusiliers 261
The 51st Regiment 262
Fifth Division 264
8th Infantry Brigade 267
The 28th Regiment 267
The 32nd Regiment 270
The 79th Highlanders 271
The 95th Rifles, 1st Battalion 272
9th Infantry Brigade 273
The 1st or Royal Scots Regiment, 3rd Battalion 273
The 44th Regiment, 2nd Battalion 274
The 92nd Gordon Highlanders 276
5th Hanoverian Infantry Brigade 290
Landwehr Battalion Hameln 290
Sixth Division 292
10th Infantry Brigade 292
The 40th Regiment, 1st Battalion 292
4th Hanoverian Brigade 294
The Corps of Engineers 299
Fourth Division at Hal 303
Others not at Waterloo 306
Prussian Army 310
French Army 320
Appendix A Correspondence regarding the models 322
Appendix B Letters not printed in full 346
Bibliography 350
Index Names and rants of writers of letters when at Waterloo 351