Before and after Waterloo: Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)Stanley, Edward
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Before and after Waterloo: Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)
Stanley, Edward
Europe -- Description and travel; France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815
Wales, Princess of, 177
Waterloo, 133, 199, 246, 247, 260, 264, 265, 270, 275, 279
Waterloo, Panorama of, by Barker, 248
Wellington, Lord, _see_ Duke of
Wellington, Duke of, 75, 263, 278, 280, 283, 291
Wellington Tree, The, 268
White's Club, 93, 95
Wilberforce, William, 128
Wilbraham, Mr., of Delamere Lodge, 285
Wilson, Sir Robert, 294
Windlesham, Surrey, 12
Winnington, Cheshire, property of Sir John Stanley, 132
Winzengerode, General, 145, 159
Woolwich, 91
Wurtemberg, Crown Prince of, 116
Wurtemberg, Prince Eugene of, 116
Yankies, 238
Yarmouth, Lord, 242
Yorke, Lady Elizabeth, 112
UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Maria Leycester, m. 1829 Rev. Augustus Hare.
[2] "Memorials of a Quiet Life," by Augustus Hare, adopted son of Mrs.
Augustus Hare (Maria Leycester).
[3] E. Hussey, of Scotney Castle, Kent. He died in 1817 and left his
only son Edward (married, 1853, Henrietta Clive, daughter of Baroness
Windsor) to the guardianship of Edward Stanley.
[4] Madame Récamier, famous French beauty, 1777-1849.
[5] Pius VII., made Pope in 1800.
[6] General Jourdan, 1762-1833, Marshal. He fought in the Peninsular
War, and rallied to Napoleon during the Hundred Days, but later on
served the Bourbons and was made Governor of the Hôtel des Invalides
under Louis Philippe.
[7] General Desaix; killed at Marengo, 1800.
[8] Louis, King of Etruria, son of Ferdinand, Duke of Parma married
Mary, Infanta of Spain; died 1803.
[9] Comte de Linois, 1761-1848. On June 13, 1801, he, with three ships,
defeated six British ships in Algeciras Bay, and being protected by the
Spanish batteries, he forced the British admiral to retreat, leaving the
_Hannibal_ in possession of the enemy. In recognition of this triumph
Linois received a sword of honour from Napoleon. The English fleet
avenged this disaster on July 12, 1801, when the Spanish and French
squadrons set out from Cadiz with the captured _Hannibal_ and Admiral
Saumarez forced the combined fleets to retire shattered into harbour
again.
[10] The vessel in which Edward Stanley's elder brother John had made
his Icelandic Expedition, 1788.
[11] A famous image of the Virgin, said to have been found A.D. 880 on a
mountain of Catalonia, and in honour of which a magnificent church was
built by Philip II. and Philip III. of Spain.
[12] _Tartana_--a vessel peculiar to the Mediterranean.
[13] Emanuel Godoy, favourite Minister of Charles IV. of Spain.
[14] H.R.H. Edward, Duke of Kent; appointed Governor of Gibraltar, 1802.
In order to establish strict discipline in the garrison, which he found
in a very demoralised state, he issued a general order forbidding any
private soldiers to enter the wine shops, half of which he closed at a
personal sacrifice of £4,000 a year in licensing fees. In consequence, a
mutiny broke out on Christmas Eve, 1802. Though the mutiny was quelled,
the Home Government did not support the Duke, who was recalled in March,
1803.
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