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An eyewitness memoir reconstructs the campaign and the climactic 1815 battle near Brussels, combining first‑hand recollections from long residence on the field with collected testimony, official dispatches, plans, and contemporary illustrations. The narrative follows the political and military lead‑up, the disposition and movements of forces, and the principal engagements and turning points, while addressing disputed timings, actions, and claims of honor. Maps, selected orders and letters, portraits, and engraved plans are used to clarify conflicting accounts and present a concise, corrective history intended for general readers and visitors to the battlefield.
[81] Lieutenant-colonel the Hon. sir Alexander Gordon was sent, escorted by captain John Grey’s troop of the 10th hussars, to ascertain the real line of retreat of the Prussians, and to communicate with their head-quarters, as to cooperation with the British army, which was ordered to retire to the position in front of Waterloo.
[82] Most writers on Waterloo, particularly those from St.-Helena, appear totally ignorant of the existence of this road.
[83] Art of War, page 598.