The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History: Third EditionRopes, John Codman
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The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History: Third Edition
Ropes, John Codman
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814-1815; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
1st division Braine le Comte marching to Nivelles and
Quatre Bras.
2d „ „ marching to Nivelles.
3d „ Nivelles „ to Quatre Bras.
4th „ Audenarde „ to Braine le Comte.
5th „ beyond Waterloo „ to Genappe.
6th „ Assche „ to Genappe and
Quatre Bras.
5th Hanoverian brigade Hal „ to Genappe and
Quatre Bras.
4th „ beyond Waterloo „ to Genappe and
Quatre Bras.
2d division {army of the } at Nivelles and
3d „ {Low Countries} Quatre Bras.
1st division } „
Indian brigade } „ Sotteghem marching to Enghien.
Major-General Dörnberg’s}
brigade and } beyond Waterloo „ to Genappe and
Quatre Bras.
Cumberland Hussars }
Remainder of the cavalry Braine le Comte „ to Nivelles and
Quatre Bras.
Duke of Brunswick’s Corps, beyond Waterloo „ to Genappe.
Nassau „ „ to Genappe.
The above disposition written out for the information of the commander
of the Forces by Colonel Sir W. De Lancey. The centre column of names
indicates the places at which the troops had arrived or were moving on.
The column on the right of the paper indicates the places the troops
were ordered to proceed to at 7 o’clock A.M., 16th June, previous to
any attack on the British.
(Signed) DeLacy Evans.
By the phrase—“the places at which the troops had arrived or were
moving on”—the writer means, in all probability, the places to which
the troops were, in his judgment, nearest, at 7 A.M.
[187] Waterloo Roll Call, pp. 4, 19.
[188] Maurice (June, 1890, p. 261) adopts a different construction
of the statement; he thinks it means that the orders to march to the
various points named were issued at seven o’clock A.M. But why should
it have been thought necessary to give to the Commander of the Forces
information of the hour of issuing the orders? What he would want to
know would be where the various divisions probably were at a given
hour, and to what points they were marching.
[189] Major Oldfield states that the Duke rode out to Quatre Bras
unattended by his Quartermaster-General, De Lancey, or by the other
heads of departments. Oldfield, MSS.
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