Chapter XLIII: Appendix: C (3)

Picton, Sir Thomas, commander 5th British division, 38;
a man of energy and capacity, 40;
at Quatre Bras, 178;
in battle of Waterloo, 299;
repulses d’Erlon’s charge, 306, 307.

Pirch I., General von, commander 2d Prussian corps, 32;
headquarters at Namur, 33;
at Ligny, 143, 151, 159;
falls back towards Wavre, 159, 226, 232, 246, 339, 340, 346;
delayed in leaving Wavre, 262, 263;
supports Bülow’s assaults upon Planchenoit, 325, 340.

Piré, Lieutenant-General, commander cavalry division 2d French
corps, 25;
in the advance, 49;
at Quatre Bras, 178;
at Waterloo, 301, 337.

Planchenoit, 313, n. [722];
attacked successfully by Bülow, retaken by Napoleon, 311;
gallantly defended by the Young Guard and Count de Lobau, 311.

Ponsonby, Major-General Sir William, commander Union brigade
English cavalry, 35;
his charge at Waterloo, 306, 307, 313.

Porter’s _History Royal Engineers_, cited, 296, 312.

Powell, Captain, 1st British footguards, 334;
describes advance of Imperial Guard at Waterloo, 319, 324.

Q.

Quatre Bras, value of the position, 3 _et seq._, 12, 13,
61 _et seq._, 94 _et seq._ (See BATTLE OF.)

Quinet, Edgar, _Histoire de la Campagne de 1815_, cited, 11, 58, 282.

Quiot, General, commanded Allix’s division at Waterloo, 302;
assigned to the task of capturing La Haye Sainte, 305;
brilliant attacks upon the allied line in support of the Guard,
318, 330, 337.

R.

Raguse, Duc de, _Mémoires_, see MARMONT.

Rebecque, General Constant, chief of staff to the Prince of Orange,
orders Perponcher to the support of Prince Bernhard’s brigade
at Quatre Bras, 101-103.

Reille, General Count, commander 2d French corps, 18;
in the advance, 44, 46, 48, 50, 101;
conference with Ney on the 16th, 116;
his _Notice Historique_, cited, 121;
disobedience of orders, 121-122, 168, 176, 192-193;
his corps at Quatre Bras, 178;
position at Waterloo, 301;
attacks Hougomont, 303-304, 314, n. 54, 329, 330, 337;
failed to realize his opportunity for retreat, 326.

_Relation Belge sur la Bataille de Waterloo_, cited, 320.

Rogniat, his _Considérations de l’Art de la Guerre_, and
_Réponse aux Notes Critiques de Napoléon_, cited, 12, 56, 57,
58, 164.

Roguet, General, commander brigade Imperial Guard at Waterloo, 316.

Royal Dragoons, a part of the British Union Brigade at Waterloo, 300.

Russia, sets her army in motion for the general attack upon France, 1;
expected to reinforce the Austrian army, 2.

S.

Saint Hilaire, Émile Marco de, _Histoire de la Garde_, cited, 319.

Saltoun, Lord, at Waterloo, 320.

Sart-à-Walhain, Grouchy orders troops there, 250;
erroneously supposed to be the place where he heard the cannon of
Waterloo, 255, 286-288.

Saxe-Weimar, Prince Bernhard of, commander brigade Dutch-Belgians,
36, 36, n. [51];
driven from Frasnes, 49, 101;
at Quatre Bras, 90, 101-103;
his position at Waterloo, 299.

Scots Greys, a part of the British Union brigade at Waterloo, 300.

Scott, Sir Walter, _Life of Napoleon_, cited, 93.

Siborne, Captain W., _History of the War in France and Belgium
in 1815_, cited, 13, 34, 35, 71, 73, 75, 77, 80, 82, 83, 84,
91, 111, 112, 114, 139, 154, 158, 159, 179, 183, 184, 191, 192,
199, 205, 212, 229, 232, 234, 237, 238, 254, 258, 261, 262,
270, 279, 283, 284, 285, 298, 301, 306, 310, 312, 319, 322, 333.

Sidney, Rev. Edwin, _The Life of Lord Hill_, cited, 332.

Sombreffe, its military value, 12-14, 57 _et seq._;
point of concentration for the Prussian army, 70;
the centre of the Prussian army at the battle of Ligny, 151.

Somerset, Major-General Lord Edward, commander cavalry brigade
British guards, 35; position at Waterloo, 300;
charge of his brigade, 307, 313.

Soult, Marshal, succeeds Berthier as Napoleon’s chief of staff, 17;
unfit for the position, 18;
told Sir W. Napier that Napoleon fought Waterloo without
examination of the enemy’s position, 24, n. [32];
not at fault on the morning of the 16th, 128;
orders Ney to envelop the enemy’s right, 155;
told Sir W. Napier that Ney neglected his orders at Quatre Bras,
191;
of no assistance to Napoleon on morning of 17th, 202;
opposed to detaching Grouchy with so large a force, 279, n. [641];
negligent as a staff officer, 246, 348.

Stanhope, Philip Henry, 5th Earl, _Notes of Conversations with the
Duke of Wellington_, cited, 42, 46, 155, 230.

Steinmetz, General von, commander division Prussian 1st corps, 32;
at Waterloo, 324-325.

_Supplementary Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, edited by his
son, cited, 72, 74, 85, 90, 374 _et seq._

Supplies, lines of, not to be confounded with lines of communication
between the allied armies, 14.

T.

Thielemann, General von, commander 3d Prussian corps, 33;
at Ligny, 144, 151, 159;
his corps placed where it could not aid Zieten and Pirch I., 204;
in the retreat to Wavre, 231, 232, 234, 261;
his corps left alone, defended Wavre against Grouchy, 264-265.
(See BATTLE OF WAVRE.)

Thiers, M. A., his _History of the Consulate and the Empire of
France under Napoleon_, cited, 10, 24, 29, 30, 66, 154, 193,
292, 354.

U.

Union Brigade, British, commanded by Major-General Ponsonby,
composed of the Royal Dragoons, Scots Greys, and the
Inniskilling Dragoons, at Waterloo, 300, 306, 307, 313.

Uxbridge, Lord (afterwards Marquis of Anglesea), commander of
combined cavalry of British and King’s German Legion, 38;
leads charge of Somerset’s cavalry at Waterloo, 307;
calls Wellington’s attention to danger of pursuit of the French
with weakened battalions, 341.

V.

Vandamme, Count, commander 3d French corps, known as a hard
fighter, 18;
delayed in the advance on the 15th, 47;
at Ligny, 153, 154, 157-159;
delayed in the march with Grouchy to Gembloux, 211, 252;
his troops entangled in attempt to carry bridges at Wavre,
264, 265.

Vandeleur, Major-General Sir John, commander British light cavalry
brigade, 35;
his position at Waterloo, 299;
brought to the centre with Vivian’s brigade at a critical time,
314;
in the final charge, 325.

Van Löben Sels, E., _Précis de la Campagne de 1815 dans les
Pays-Bas_, cited, 49, 76, 77, 92, 101, 102, 112, 279, 280,
284, 291, 310, 312, 317.

Vaudoncourt, General Guillaume de, _Histoire des Campagnes de 1814
et 1815 en France_, cited, 59, 289, 291.

Vivian, Major-General Sir Hussey, commander British light cavalry
brigade, 35;
his position at Waterloo, 299;
brought into action at a critical moment, 314;
in the final charge, 325.

W.

Walhain, where Grouchy heard the cannon of Waterloo, 255, 256, 259,
286-288.

Waterloo, the field of, 296;
surveyed by English engineers before the opening of the campaign,
296. (See BATTLE OF.)

_Waterloo Letters_, cited, 83, 112, 233, 299, 300, 310, 312, 319,
321, 322, 323, 324, 332, 333, 334, 335.

Wavre, regarded by Napoleon as the proper point of concentration
for the Prussian army, 98;
the Prussian rendezvous after battle of Ligny, 233.
(See BATTLE OF.)

Weather, 198, 211, 216, 289, 291, 292, 348.

Wellington, Duke of, headquarters at Brussels, 3, 74;
his qualifications as a commander, 40, 41;
his army, 34-40, 43, 294, 302;
anticipates French advance by way of Mons, 74-77;
his understanding with Blücher, 70 _et seq._, 91, 346;
delays advance upon Quatre Bras, 77-115, 346-347;
at Quatre Bras on the 16th, 106, 109;
his conference with Blücher at Brye, 108, 144-146, 150;
disapproves of Blücher’s position at Ligny, 155, n. [353];
in the battle of Quatre Bras, 178, 179, 183-185, 187, 188;
retreats from Quatre Bras, 214, 233, 297;
learns of Prussian defeat at Ligny, 233;
did not receive assurance of support from Blücher until the
morning of the 18th, 234, 238, 347;
his ride to Wavre to consult with Blücher, 238 _et seq._, 347;
his preparations for the battle of Waterloo, 294-297;
occupies Hougomont, 297;
his command at Waterloo, 297-300;
fortifies La Haye Sainte, 301;
his justification in accepting battle based upon assurance of
support from Blücher, 294, 295, 302, 327;
his efforts to restore his shattered line, 310, 312, 314, 318;
his imminent peril, 314;
repulses charge of the Imperial Guard, 318-325, 332-336;
final advance of his whole line, 325, 340, 341;
his retention of 18,000 men at Hal and Tubize, 339;
contrasted with Ney, 338, 339.

Y.

Yonge, C. D., _Life of Wellington_, cited, 296.

Young, Rev. Julian Charles, _A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young,
Tragedian_ cited, 239-241.

Z.

Zieten, General von, commander 1st Prussian corps, 32;
headquarters at Charleroi, 33;
resists French advance on the 15th, 47, 70, 77;
at Ligny, 143, 151;
falls back toward Wavre, 159, 226, 232;
delay in movement on the 18th, 262;
arrival of his corps at Waterloo, 324;
his probable course indicated if Grouchy had detained Bülow
and Pirch I., 328;
his intervention not anticipated, 336;
his appearance and decisive attack upon the right flank of
French army assured the allied victory, 340, 341.

from a tracing of a portion of Sheet XIII of the Comte de Ferraris’

“CARTE CHOROGRAPHIQUE DES PAYS-BAS AUTRICHIENS”

made by Edward A. Reeves, Assistant Map Curator, R.G.S. London, 1889.

Retraced, omitting the features immaterial to the Campaign of 1815, by Wm. H. Munroe, Boston, 1892.

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WATERLOO

1815

Compiled from the

Carte Topographique de la Belgique

PUBLISHED IN 1882

and from
Craän’s Plan of the Battle of Waterloo

PUBLISHED AT BRUSSELS IN 1817

The positions of the troops are taken from Map No. 1 in Siborne’s Waterloo Letters.

Map No. 13. The Field of Waterloo at 11.15 A.M. June 18, 1815.

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The spelling, hyphenation, punctuation and accentuation are as the original, except for apparent typographical errors which have been corrected. Some unpaired double quotation marks could not be corrected with confidence and were left as in the original.