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Notes
[1] BL Add. MS 34706-235, dated 14th February 1837.
[2] Letter, undated and to unknown recipient, in Vivian, p.
303: quoted in part 3 - p. 22 of FE78.
[3] History, pp. 329-330, p. 334: these passages appeared
in the 3rd edition (1848) unchanged from the 1st and
2nd editions (1844).
[4] Letters, no. 3.
[5] One-Leg, pp. 132-133, citing Words on Wellington…
Sir W. A. Fraser - J. C. Nimmo – London – 1889: vol.
I, p. 4.
[6] Letter from Wellington to Ellesmere, dated 25th
September 1851, in Personal Reminiscences of the
Duke of Wellington. Francis, First Earl of Ellesmere,
ed. Alice, Countess of Strafford. John Murray – London
– 1903: pp. 185-188.
[7] Letters, no. 7.
[8 Owen, p.11, p. 12.
[9] One-Leg, p. 134.
[10] One-Leg, p. 134.
[11] Belle-Alliance, nos. 58, 59 and 60 (the last appears in
English in Letters II, no. 68).
[12] See part 1 in FE 76.
[13] Von Wavre bis Belle-Alliance. J. v. Pflugk-Harttung.
Jahrbücher für die deutsche Armee und Marine. Berlin
– 1908: see part 1 in FE 76.
[14] Letters, no. 71.
[15] Miller, pp. 60-65.
[16] Letters, no. 81 and 82: see part 1 in FE 76.
[17] Letters II, no. 16.
[18] Letters, no. 8.
[19] Letters, no. 75.
[20] Letters, no. 75.
[21] Letters, nos. 75, 76 and 82: see part 1 in FE76.
[22] Letters, nos. 75 and 76: see part 1 in FE76.
[23] One of Wellington’s Staff Officers. Major-General
Sir Louis Jackson KBE CB CMG. Journal of the Society
for Army Historical Research, vol. XIV – London - 1935:
pp. 155-167.
[24] Miller, p. 75.
[25] Waterloo Despatch, dated 19th June 1815, in WD, pp.
146-151. Two further accounts are quoted in Miller, pp.
75-76: Fraser repeated the story from an “authority”, in
Words on Wellington… Sir W.A. Fraser - J.C. Nimmo
– London – 1889: p. 262; and Wellington’s account to
Samuel Rogers, in Dictionary of National Biography:
pp. 754-755. Later Wellington learned that De Lancey
had survived, and wrote a correction, dated 22nd June
1815, in WD, pp. 160-161.
[26] Lady De Lancey’s Narrative of 1816, quoted in Miller,
pp. 110-111.
[27] History, p. 558 and p. 559.
[28] A bio note on LTC Delancey Barclay will appear in a future issue of FE.
[29] In 1815 the staff of the Adjutant-General comprised a
Deputy (DAG - a colonel), eleven Assistants (AAGs -lieutenant-
colonels and majors) and ten Deputy
Assistants (DAAGs - captains and lieutenants). Although
seconded to the AG’s staff, they remained listed by their
regimental affiliations. While reporting to the AG, in the
field they answered to the commander of the formation
to which they were assigned: most were attached to corps
and divisional headquarters, each division having one
AAG and one DAAG. See The Armies of Wellington.
Philip Haythornthwaite. Brockhampton Press – London
– 1998: chapter 12; and Wellington’s Army. Col. H.C.B.
Rogers OBE. Ian Allan Ltd – Shepperton UK – 1979:
chapter 7.
[30] Vivian was not confusing Barclay with another staff
officer of similar surname – Lieutenant-Colonel Sir
George Berkeley, 35th Foot and DAG to the 1st Corps,
who was severely wounded at around 3.30 p.m. (BL
Add. MS 34704-163); or with Seymour, who is named
separately later in the same letter.
[31] Miller, p. 75: Wellington’s three main staff officers –
the Military Secretary, QMG and AG – were seriously
wounded; and of Wellington’s ADCs and the QMG’s
and AG’s staff, about one-third became casualties.
Cathcart / Greenock, AQMG to the cavalry, spent much of
the day delivering orders for Uxbridge; Lieutenant-Colonel
Henry Rooke of the 3rd Foot Guards, AAG to
the 1st (British Guards) Division, missed the attack of
the Imperial Guard, having been sent to find ammunition
(Letters II, no. 95); and Major Dawson Kelly, AQMG
and supervising officer to Wellington’s headquarters,
re-joined his regiment, the 73rd Foot, which had lost all
of its officers (Letters, no. 145).
[32] Letter from Wellington to “ – ”, dated 17th August
1815, in WD, pp. 244-245.
[33] Reports and accounts consulted include:
· Ponsonby: Letters, no. 35, 36, 45; Letters II, nos.
27, 29, 30 and 33.
· Grant: Letters, nos. 62-69; Uxbridge’s letter to
Colonel Allan, dated 18th December 1815, in Owen, pp.
62-63, and Letters, no. 6.
· Ghigny: De Bas & WommersomIII, pp. 416-417,
Note 26.
· the Cumberland Hussar Regiment: Letters, no. 9;
letter of 4th August 1815 in Spencer and Waterloo:
The Letters of Spencer Madan 1814-1816. Ed B.
Madan. L.S. & P. Ltd. - London – 1970: p. 123; and
entry for 14th July 1815 in The Farington Diary
(volume VIII). Ed. J. Greig. Hutchinson & Co. – London
– 1924: p. 19, quoted in One-Leg, p. 365.
· Merlen: De Bas & WommersomIII, pp. 418-421,
Notes 27.
[34] Apsley House Museum, item WM 1258-1948.
[35] The order was published and so described in The Life
of Wellington. Sir Herbert Maxwell. Sampson Low -Marston
and Company - London – 1899: p. 75. Maxwell
gave no source for his assertion, and neither Apsley
House nor Stratfield Saye could provide further
information.
[36] See e.g. Letters, no. 35, 36, 45; Letters II, nos. 27 and
29.
[37] Memorandum Upon the Plan of the Battle of Waterloo,
dated October 1836, in WSD, p. 513.
[38] Müffling – History, p. 32.
[39] Müffling – Memoirs, p. 247.
[40] Hofmann, pp. 138-139.
[41] Müffling - Memoirs, note to pp. 247-248.
[42] Geschichte des Feldzugs von 1815 in den
Niederlanden und Frankreich…Major K. von Damitz.
Mittler - Berlin, Posen and Bromberg - 1837-1838: p.
293; Plane der Schlachten und Treffen…, vol IV.
Oberstleutnant A. Wagner. G. Reimer - Berlin – 1825:
p. 85, p. 92.
[43] Letters, no. 7.
[44] One-Leg, p. 142, citing the Plas Newydd Papers.
[45] Letters, no. 9.
[46] Letters, no. 11.
[47] One-Leg, pp. 146-147, citing the Plas Newydd Papers.
[48] Letter from Uxbridge to Colonel Allan, dated 18th
December 1815, in Owen, pp. 62-63.
[49] Vivian was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland from
1831-1834, and Siborne was his Assistant Military
Secretary: and Vivian wrote numerous letters to Siborne
about the actions of his brigade during the campaign.
[50] History, p. 257.
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Acknowledgements
My thanks for the images to: De Lancey
and Uxbridge – Philip Haythornthwaite;
Müffling – Reinhard Montag; Pieneman –
Geert van Uythoven.
Left Wing History (4) Vivian’s 6th (Light) Cavalry Brigade on the 18th June 1815
Left Wing History (3) Vivian’s 6th (Light) Cavalry Brigade on the 18th June 1815
Left Wing History (2) Prussian I Corps
Left Wing History (1) Waterloo 1815: Vivian's 6th Cavalry Brigade
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