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
[103] Marshal Macdonald (made Duc de Tarente after the battle of Wagram,
1809), b. 1765, d. 1840. He did not join Napoleon during the Hundred
Days, but refused employment under the King, and served only as a simple
soldier in the National Guard.
[104] Edward Leycester had inherited in December, 1815, the fortune of
his cousin, Lady Penrhyn, who directed in her will that he should assume
the name of Penrhyn. He married, in 1823, Lady Charlotte Stanley,
daughter of the 14th Earl of Derby.
[105] Lord Pevensey, son of Earl of Sheffield.
[106] Panorama by Barker, shown in London.
[107] Married Sir Edward Parry, K.C.B., the Arctic navigator, 1826.
[108] Allusions to the characters in "Guy Mannering."
[109] John Scott, painter, 1774-1828.
[110] Hougoumont was occupied by Byng's Brigade, and resisted the
repeated attacks of the French throughout the battle.
[111] Napoleon's army, on the day of Waterloo, occupied the plateau of
La Belle Alliance.
[112] A farm occupied by the King's German Legion under Major Baring;
after a gallant resistance captured by the French at 4 o'clock on June
18th.
[113] Wellington watched the battle from the shade of an elm-tree, which
was afterwards sold to an Englishman, who made the wood into boxes and
sold them as memorials.
[114] General Bertrand, 1773-1844; fought in Egypt and distinguished
himself at Austerlitz and in the campaigns of Wagram and Moscow. He
followed Napoleon to Elba and to St. Helena.
[115] Inn at Alderley.
[116] Sir George Scovell, 1774-1861, General. He fought in the Peninsula
and at Waterloo.
[117] Sir Lowry Cole, second son of first Earl of Enniskillen, General
of 4th Division at the Battle of Salamanca. He received the thanks of
both Houses of Parliament for his gallant services in the Peninsula.
Commanded 6th Division at Waterloo.
[118] Comte d'Artois, afterwards King Charles X.
[119] Daughter of Louis XVI.
[120] Caroline of Naples.
[121] Michael Bruce, one of the Englishmen who helped Lavalette to
escape from prison. He was known as Lavalette's Bruce. He had previously
tried to save Ney. Major-General Wilson and Captain Hutchinson were also
concerned in Lavalette's escape.
[122] Denon (1747-1825), a member of the Académic de Peinture. He made
sketches in Egypt for Napoleon, quietly finishing them on the
battlefield. He directed the Emperor what objects of art he should take
from various countries to enrich the Louvre. Napoleon made him
Directeur-Général of Museums.
[123] Abbé Roch Ambroise Sicard, founder of deaf and dumb school at
Paris, 1742-1822.
[124] Labédoyère, General (1786-1815). Shot at Grenelle, 1815.
[125] French poet and Academician, 1738-1813.
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