"_Morning of the 17th._--Upon my joining Colonel Smyth, he desired me to receive from Lieutenant Waters the plan of the position, which, according to his desire, I had sent to him from Brussels the preceding day, and of which I was told to take the greatest care. It had been lost in one of the charges of the French cavalry, and recovered. Lieutenant Waters, who had it in his cloak before his saddle (or in his sabretasche attached to his saddle, I forget which), was unhorsed in the _melee_ and ridden over. Upon recovering himself, he found the cavalry had passed him, and his horse was nowhere to be seen. He felt alarmed for the loss of his plan. To look for his horse, he imagined, was in vain, and his only care was to avoid being taken prisoner, which he hoped to do by keeping well towards our right. The enemy being repulsed in his charge was returning by the left to the ground by which he had advanced. After proceeding about fifty yards, he was delighted to find his horse quietly destroying the vegetables in a garden near the farmhouse at Quatre Bras. He thus fortunately recovered his plan, and with it rejoined the Colonel. The retreat of the Prussians upon Wavre rendered it necessary for the Duke to make a corresponding movement, and upon the receipt of a communication from Bluecher, he called Colonel Smyth and asked him for his plan of the position of Waterloo, which I immediately handed to him. The Duke then gave directions to Sir William De Lancey to put the army in position at Waterloo, forming them across the Nivelles and Charleroi chaussees."--Porter's _History of the Corps of Royal Engineers_, vol. i., p. 380. See also Ropes' _Waterloo_, p. 296. (18) "He was able to speak in a short time after the fall, and when the Duke of Wellington took his hand and asked how he felt, he begged to be taken from the crowd that he might die in peace, and gave a message to me."--_Abridged Narrative._ (19) Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Delancey Barclay, 1st Foot Guards. See _Army List_ for 1815, pp. 30 and 145, also _Waterloo Roll Call_, p. 30. (20) Probably a barn at the farm of Mont St Jean, about 700 yards north of the Wellington Tree. (21) Doubtless the village of Mont St Jean, the village of Waterloo being two miles further north. When Miss Waldie (afterwards Mrs Eaton--see _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. lix., p. 26) went to Waterloo on the 15th July, she noticed the name of Sir William De Lancey written in chalk on the door of a cottage, where he had slept the night before the battle. (_Waterloo Days_, p. 125.) The sketch on the opposite page is reproduced from _Sketches in Flanders and Holland_, by Robert Hills, 1816, and shows the village of Mont St Jean, as it appeared a month after the battle. The figures in the foreground represent villagers returning from the battlefield with cuirasses, brass eagles, bullets, etc., which they had picked up. [Illustration: THE VILLAGE OF MONT ST JEAN, 1815.]