[706] Charras, vol. 1, p. 288, and note 2. [707] Charras, vol. 1, p. 288; La Tour d’Auvergne, p. 274. D’Erlon in his autobiography throws no light on the matter; Drouet, p. 97. [708] Nowhere better, perhaps, than in Erckmann-Chatrian’s “Waterloo.” [709] Siborne, vol. 2, pp. 5, 6. [710] _Ante_, p. 270. [711] Charras, vol. 2, p. 18. Colonel Heymès of Ney’s staff says that more than 2,000 men were killed in endeavoring to get possession of La Haye Sainte. Doc. Inéd., p. 17. This, however, must be an excessive estimate. [712] Charras, vol. 1, pp. 302, 303; vol. 2, p. 18; Hooper, p. 213, n.; O’Connor Morris, p. 352. Other authorities put the capture of La Haye Sainte two hours later. Colonel Heymès of Ney’s staff places the hour between 6 and 7 P.M. Doc. Inéd., pp. 18, 19. [713] Kennedy, pp. 114-116. Kennedy’s account of this part of the battle, as indeed of all parts of it, is most valuable; but we think he is in error in supposing that La Haye Sainte had not fallen before these cavalry attacks were made. [714] Kennedy, pp. 127 _et seq._; Siborne, vol. 2, pp. 152 _et seq._ [715] Mercer, vol. 1, p. 325; Napoléon à Waterloo, p. 315; Siborne, vol. 2, pp. 154, 155. Mercer in his Diary seems to think these enfilading batteries were Prussian; but see his letter and plan in the Waterloo Letters, pp. 214 _et seq._ _Cf._ Waterloo Letters, p. 330. [716] Van Loben Sels, p. 333. [717] Charras, vol. 1, p. 318. [718] Siborne, vol. 2, pp. 152 _et seq._; Van Loben Sels, p. 295. _Cf._ Porter’s Hist. Royal Engineers, vol. 1, p. 382: Waterloo Letters, p. 339, where the hour is fixed by Lieutenant-Colonel Dawson Kelly at “about half-past six.” [719] Kennedy, p. 127. [720] Halkett’s brigade was on the main line, nearly half of a mile west of the pike. [721] Kempt’s brigade was on the east side of the Brussels pike; its right rested on it. [722] It is almost exactly a mile and a half from the point of intersection of the Brussels turnpike with the Wavre road to the church in Planchenoit. [723] See Napoléon à Waterloo, pp. 313, 318. [724] The principal question as to this is in regard to the corps of Reille, a part of which, certainly, might have been more usefully employed in sustaining the cavalry attacks than in fighting in the wood of Hougomont, or on the Nivelles road on the west side of Hougomont. See Heymès’ statement in Doc. Inéd., pp. 17, 18. [725] Charras, vol. 1, p. 316. [726] Ib., p. 317. [727] Ib., p. 321, n.; correcting the statement on p. 318, which speaks of only one battalion of grenadiers being on the road to the Maison du Roi. [728] Charras, vol. 1, p. 321. [729] Damitz, vol. 1, p. 285. Damitz gives a complete roster of the Guard, and, in fact, of the whole army, at the end of his first volume. He also gives the numbers of the regiments and battalions detached in and around Planchenoit.