As it was, our troops bore the whole brunt of the battle without losing an inch of ground, and the arrival of the Prussians, at the close of the day, sealed the fate of Napoleon.[B] Footnote A: Lord Wolseley, in his _Decline and Fall of Napoleon_, says the French army consisted of about 123,000 men of all arms and 344 guns.—ED. * * * * * In offering this, the first annotated Waterloo Army List, to the British public, I must ask their indulgence for any omissions and errors it may contain. Although I have spared no trouble in the matter, there must be, I well know, a few names of British Waterloo officers who have escaped my notice. But when the following list is compared with the very defective lists given by Siborne and George Jones (the foundation of all other lists), I think the following ROLL CALL will be found infinitely more trustworthy. I have also added the regimental and army commissions of the Waterloo officers up to the date of the battle, and the honours and promotions bestowed after Waterloo. The war services of _many_ of these same officers now appear in print for the first time, and are not to be found in the _Military Calendar_ of field officers which was published in 1820, nor in Hart’s _Army Lists_, which date from 1840, and are such valuable works of reference. Of course, a large proportion of the names I have annotated, genealogically, are names of well-known families of the present time, but there are also many names in the following ROLL CALL which belong to families that are now extinct or lost sight of. I have endeavoured to rescue as many names from oblivion as time would allow, but there are a certain number of whom I can give no information beyond their obituary notices: “Here lies Pat Steele. That’s very true. Who was he? What was he? What’s that to you?” As regards the orthography of the names in the regimental lists, I am not responsible, as they are copied from the “official” _Army List_. The same rule applies to the precedence of the different regiments. I am indebted to Colonel F.A. Whinyates, late R.H.A., for some interesting information regarding artillery officers, and to George Tancred, Esq., late captain Scots Greys, for the Waterloo muster-roll and some memoranda relating to the Scots Greys. CHARLES DALTON. 32 WEST CROMWELL ROAD, LONDON, S.W. _June 1, 1890._ Footnote B: “I should not do justice to my feelings, or to Marshal Blücher and the Prussian Army, if I did not attribute the success of this arduous day to the cordial and timely assistance I received from them.”—_Wellington’s despatch to Earl Bathurst._ ABBREVIATIONS. Par. = Peninsular. Pa. = Peninsula. G.C.H. = Knight Grand Cross of Hanover.