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[1] Recollections of Waterloo by a Staff Officer. Anon. Colburn’s United Service Magazine September-October 1847: October, p. 183.
[2] History, p. 534, p. 555, pp. 558-559.
[3] History, p. 174; Letters, no. 76; etc.
[4] One-Leg, p. 134.
[5] Letters, no. 82.
[6] Letters, no. 81.
[7] Dyneley, p. 65.
[8] One-Leg, p. 134.
[9] History, p. 204.
[10] History, p. 204.
[11] History, pp. 204-205; also Netherlands Artillery in the Waterloo Campaign. Part III – The artillery batteries in action. Geert van Uythoven - First Empire 73 - November / December 2003: pp. 31-39.
[12] Letters, nos. 51 and 75; Belle-Alliance, Report no. 56: Bericht des 1. Husaren-Regiments der Deutschen Legion über seinen Anteil and der Schlacht bei Belle-Alliance: Major Georg von der Decken.
[13] History, p. 236; Letters, no. 75.
[14] Diary, quoted in Vivian, p. 300.
[15] Letters, no. 75; see also Letters, no. 8.
[16] Letters, no. 51.
[17] One-Leg, pp. 135-138; Letters, no. 5.
[18] Dyneley, p. 65.
[19] BL Add. MS. 34706, f. 471.
[20] One-Leg, pp. 138; Letters, no. 5; letter from Uxbridge to Allan, 18th December 1815, in Owen, p. 62.
[21] Weller, p. 102.
[22] One-Leg, p. 364 note z.
[23] Letters, no. 3.
[24] One-Leg, p. 363 note v; Wood, p.153.
[25] Owen, p. 12.
[26] Letters, no. 5.
[27] Memorandum by Uxbridge (undated) in the Plas Newydd Papers, cited in One-Leg, p. 135.
[28] Letters, no. 5; One-Leg, pp. 141-142.
[29] Müffling – Memoirs , pp. 244-245.
[30] Weller, pp. 138-139.
[31] Wood, p. 146, pp.130-131.
[32] Wood, p. 148.
[33] Letters, no. 51.
[34] Wood, p. 148.
[35] History, pp. 269-270, p. 272.
[36] History, p. 270.
[37] Letters, no. 51.
[38] Letters, no. 82.
[39] History, p. 270.
[40] Geschichte der Befreiungskriege 1813-1815. Napoleons Untergang 1815. Band I. Generalmajor Lettow-Vorbeck - Berlin - Mittler – 1904: p. 374; also Wellington & Blücher, p.381.
[41] Damitz, p. 241; Wellington & Blücher, p.381.
[42] History, p. 174; Letters, no. 76; etc.
[43] Supplementary Despatches, Correspondence and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington. Ed. The 2nd Duke of Wellington - Kraus – Millwood, New York – 1973: p. 528.
[44] Owen, pp. 11-12.
[45] Von Wavre, p. 413.
[46] History, p. 233, p. 245; Wellington und Blücher, p. 385.
[47] Blücher / Gneisenau Report, in Müffling – Memoirs, pp. 123-127.
[48] Chalfont, p. 93.
[49] Von Wavre, p. 509-510.
[50] Damitz, p. 287.
[51] Von Wavre, pp. 618-619.
[52] Letters, no. 75. Siborne received this letter via Vivian, who substituted “Papelotte” where Taylor had written “Ohain”.
[53] Von Wavre, p. 619.
[54] Von Wavre, p. 621.
[55] Personal Reminiscences of the Duke of Wellington. Francis, First Earl of Ellesmere - Ed. Alice, Countess of Stafford - John Murray – London – 1903: p. 206.
[56] The Life of Wellington. Sir Herbert Maxwell. Sampson Low, Marston and Company - London – 1899: p. 67. Maxwell gave no source for his assertion, and recent enquiries of Apsley House and the Estate Office at Stratfield Saye (another Wellington residence) produced no further information.
[57] History, p. 204 stated that Vivian spoke personally to Wellington on the matter.
[58] De Bas & Wommersom II, pp. 70-71.
[59] Letters, no. 75.
[60] Upon the deadline for this article, the original source letter has been published: rather than give its original British Library reference, the
more recent reference is: Letter no. 62, in Letters from the Battle of Waterloo. Gareth Glover. Greenhill Books – London – 2004.
[61] See e.g. Victory, pp. 94-95 - which has a “full house.”
[62] Von Wavre, p. 619.
[63] Müffling – Memoirs, pp. 241-242.
[64] Müffling – Memoirs, p. 215.
[65] Von Wavre, p. 619-620.
[66] Eine Episode aus der Schlacht von Belle-Alliance aus der Feder eines Mitkämpfers. E. von Gronow - Militair-Wochenblatt - Berlin – 1907: pp. 2933-2939.
[67] I am grateful to Michael-Andreas Tänzer for his advice and for consulting the following works, and others, to establish these points: Aus Hannovers militärischer Vergangenheit. “B. von L.-G.” Weichelt – Hannover – 1880: pp. 378-380; Die Generale der Königlich Hannoverschen Armee und ihrer Stammtruppen. B. von
Poten – Mittler – Berlin – 1903: p. 289; Königlich Grossbritannisch-Hannoverscher Staats-Kalendar aus das Jahr 1818. Beremberg – Lauenburg – 1818: p. 147.
[68] See e.g. Müffling – Memoirs, p. 242, p.
244, p. 246.
[69] Belle-Alliance, Report no. 55: Bericht
des 1, Husaren-Regiments der Deutschen
Legion über seinen Anteil an der
Schlacht bei Belle-Alliance: Anon.
[70] Belle-Alliance, Report no. 56 (see note 12).
[71] Rapport des General Leutnant von Bülow von Dennewitz über die Schlacht von Belle Alliance, in De Bas & Wommersom III, pp. 518-541.
[72] Chalfont, p. 133.
[73] Von Wavre, p. 619, p. 625.
[74] Bülow’s Report (see note 71).
[75] Von Wavre, p. 625, p. 631; Chalfont, p. 133.
[76] Von Wavre, pp. 625-629.
[77] Letters, no. 75; see also Letters, no. 76.
[78] Letters, no. 82.
[79] Cited in The Hundred Days. Anthony Brett-James - Macmillan and Co. Ltd. – London - 1964: p. 130.
[80] Bülow’s Report (see note 71).
[81] Von Wavre, pp. 632-633, p. 413.
[82] Based upon: Blücher / Gneisenau Report, in Müffling - Memoirs, pp. 123-127; Bülow’s Report (see note 71); History; and Damitz.
[83] Bülow’s Report (see note 71).
[84] History, p. 318; Damitz, p. 290.
[85] Blücher / Gneisenau Report, in Müffling - Memoirs, pp. 123-127.
[86] Damitz p. 290, p. 296. These battalions are identified as, from the 15th Brigade “the 2nd [Fusilier] battalion of the 18th regiment, and the 3rd [Fusilier] battalion of the 3rd Silesian landwehr, followed by the 1st battalion of the former regiment” (History, p. 318); and from the 13th Brigade “the 1st and 3rd battalions of the 2nd Neumark landwehr” (History, p. 320); Siborne wrote that they moved upon Frischermont and Smohain.
[87] Bülow’s Report (see note 71).
[88] Victory, p. 117.
[89] Bülow’s Report (see note 71).
[90] Dyneley, p. 65.
[91] Letters, no. 75.
[92] Letters, no. 82.
[93] Belle-Alliance, Report no. 55 (see note 69).
[94] Letters, no. 73.
[95] BL Add. MS. 34706, ff. 235-237, dated 14th February 1837; see also: BL Add. MS. 34706, ff. 209-210, dated 2nd February 1837; BL Add. MS. 34706, ff. 214-215, dated 6th February 1837; BL Add. Ms. 34706, ff. 312-313, dated April 19th 1837.
[96] History, p. 319.
[97] BL Add. MS. 34706, ff. 209-210, dated 2nd February 1837.
[98] BL Add. MS. 34706, ff. 214-215, dated 6th February 1837.
[99] Chalfont, pp. 135-136; Damitz p. 296- 298; History p. 322.
[100] Victory, p. 122.
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Acknowledgements
For permission to reproduce the portrait of Major-General Sir Richard Hussey Vivian (1775-1842): thanks to Lucinda Middleton, Curator of Art & Exhibitions, The Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, U.K.
For the image of General Graf Bülow von Dennewitz (1755-1816), an engraving by Robert Trossin (1820-1896), reproduced from “Leben des Generals Grafen Bülow von Dennewitz” by K. A. Varnhagen von Ense – Berlin – 1853: thanks to Hans Dieter Müller – see his web-site devoted to Bülow at www.dennewitz.com .
For providing the Deployment image – thanks to Geert van Uythoven.
For providing from his archive the image of the Officer of the 1st Hussars of the K.G.L. by Rittmeister Graf Castell (3. Hannoversches Husaren-Regiment), originally in the German edition of “History of the King’s German Legion” by N. Ludlow Beamish – Hannover - 1832-1837;
and for help with General-Lieutnant Freiherr Carl von Linsingen, (see note 67) - thanks to Michael-Andreas Tänzer - see the website www.hannoversche-militaergeschichte.org devoted to Hanoverian military history and the King’s German Legion.
For the helpful service and the prompt supply of materials – thanks to Jürgen Ritter and colleagues at the Bayerische Staatsbibli-othek in München.
All English renderings of German originals or Vivian’s handwriting are mine – and ultimately any errors in translation or transcription are mine - although I am grateful to John Hussey and Gareth Glover for straining their eyes over some of the Vivian letters,
and additional thanks are now due to Gareth for placing more of the unpublished letters to Siborne before the wider public (see note 60).
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