The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and AnecdotesDalton, Charles
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The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes
Dalton, Charles
Great Britain. Army -- Registers; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Transcriber’s Note:
This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects.
Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_.
Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please
see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding
the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.
The bulk of this text consists of annotated tables containing names,
dates, and ranks achieved of participants in the British Army at the
battle of Waterloo. Most entries are accompanied by brief biographical
sketches. The notes follow each table, as printed.
The numbering of the notes for each table has been retained, beginning
anew with ‘1’ for each table.
The footnotes to the prefatory material, and to the headings of many
tables, originally appeared as an asterisk. These have been re-sequenced
from A to W and appear after the paragraph where they are referenced.
THE
WATERLOO ROLL CALL.
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THE
WATERLOO ROLL CALL.
_WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES._
BY
CHARLES DALTON, F.R.G.S.,
AUTHOR OF “HISTORY OF THE WRAYS OF GLENTWORTH,” “LIFE OF GENERAL SIR
EDWARD CECIL,” “MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN JOHN DALTON, COMMANDANT OF
TRICHINOPOLY, 1752–1753”; AND EDITOR OF “ENGLISH ARMY
LISTS AND COMMISSION REGISTERS, 1661–1714,”
“THE BLENHEIM ROLL,” ETC.
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=Second Edition,=
_REVISED AND ENLARGED_.
LONDON:
EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE,
=Government and General Publishers,=
EAST HARDING STREET, E.C.
1904
[_All Rights Reserved._]
[Illustration]
=Dedicated=
TO
GEORGE TANCRED, ESQUIRE
(LATE CAPTAIN SCOTS GREYS),
OF
WEENS, ROXBURGHSHIRE.
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.
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Time does not diminish the interest of Waterloo, for that combat of
giants is indissolubly connected with Napoleon—the greatest master of
the art of war the world has ever known.
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