Wellington (38 page)

70
Kincaid op. cit., pp. 97–8.

71
Fletcher p. 264, Costello p. 114.

72
Guedalla op. cit., p. 222.

73
Hibbert p. 111.

74
Ibid.

75
Creevey I p. 280.

76
Roger Norman Buckley (ed)
The Napoleonic War Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne
(London 1987) pp. 200–1.

77
G. R. Gleig
The Subaltern
(Edinburgh 1877) pp. 161–2.

78
Buckley op. cit., p. 201.

79
Wellesley op. cit., p. 210.

80
Larpent op. cit., p. 48.

81
Longford
Sword
op. cit., p. 342.

82
John Kincaid
Random Shots from a Rifleman
(London 1835) p. 198

83
Gurwood op. cit., p. 641.

84
Ibid., p. 631.

85
Michael Glover
Wellington’s Army
(Newton Abbot, Devon 1977) pp. 137–8.

86
Blanco op. cit., p. 122.

87
Larpent op. cit., p. 96.

88
Hibbert p. 95.

89
John Sweetman
Raglan: From the Peninsula to the Crimea
(London 1993) p. 23.

90
Hibbert p. 96.

91
Longford
Sword
op. cit., pp. 214, 360–1.

92
Larpent op. cit., p. 49.

93
Buckley op. cit., p. 201.

94
Larpent op. cit., p. 52

95
Gurwood op. cit., p. 651.

96
S.A.C. Cassels (ed)
Peninsular Portrait: The Letters of Captain William Bragge
(London 1963) p. 100.

97
Gurwood op. cit., p. 658.

98
Wellesley p. 268.

99
Gurwood op. cit., p. 706.

100
Tomkinson op. cit., p. 253.

101
Buckley op. cit., p. 217.

102
Brett-James p. 292.

103
Guedalla op. cit., p. 232.

104
Longford
Sword
op. cit., p. 330.

105
Gurwood op. cit., pp. 719–20.

106
Nicholas Bentley (ed)
The reminiscences of Captain Gronow
(London 1977) p. 13.

107
Gurwood op. cit., p. 712.

108
Ibid., p. 766.

109
Gleig p. 213.

110
Ibid., p. 217.

111
Gronow p. 15.

112
Longford
Sword
op. cit., pp. 335–6.

113
Ibid., p. 331.

114
Ibid., p. 344.

115
Larpent op. cit., p. 487.

  1
Alan Schom
Napoleon Bonaparte
(London 1997) p. 789.

  2
Alfred Cobban
A History of Modern France
(3 vols, London 1967), vol. II p. 66.

  3
Longford
Sword
op. cit., p. 347.

  4
Wellesley op. cit., p. 312.

  5
Ibid.

  6
Gurwood op. cit., p. 814.

  7
Kincaid
Adventures
op. cit., p. 77.

  8
Brett-James op. cit., p. 294.

  9
Longford
Sword
op. cit., p. 357.

10
Oman op. cit., p.
000
.

11
Wellesley op. cit., p. 310.

12
Guedalla op. cit., p. 248.

13
Ibid., p. 248.

14
Gurwood op. cit., p. 833.

15
Ibid., p. 819.

16
Wellesley op. cit., p. 321.

17
Guedalla op. cit., p. 252.

18
Brett-lames op. cit., p. 295.

19
Longford
Sword
op. cit., p. 374.

20
Ibid., p. 375.

21
Brett-James op. cit., p. 296.

22
Longford
Sword
op. cit., pp. 378–9.

23
Wellesley op. cit., p. 336.

24
Ibid., p. 337.

25
Guedalla op. cit., p. 252.

26
Longford
Sword
op. cit., p. 382.

27
Gurwood op. cit., p. 835.

28
Fortescue op. cit., vol. X p. 247.

29
Creevey op. cit., vol. I p. 289.

30
David Miller
Lady De Lancey at Waterloo
(Staplehurst 2000) p. 49.

31
1815: The Waterloo Campaign: Wellington, His German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras
(London 1998);
1815: The Waterloo Campaign, Volume 2, The German Victory
(London 1999). See also Peter Hofschröer’s useful
The Memoirs of Baron von Müffling: A Prussian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars
(London 1997).

32
John Hussey ‘At what time on 15 June 1815 did Wellington Learn of Napoleon’s attack on the Prussians?’
War in History
1999 no. 6.

33
Gurwood op. cit., p. 838.

34
Gurwood op. cit., p. 842.

35
Creevey op. cit., p. 228.

36
Longford
Sword
op. cit., p. 405.

37
Gurwood op. cit., p. 855.

38
Wellesley op. cit., p. 355.

39
Miller op. cit., p. 108.

40
Wellesley op. cit., p. 343.

41
Gurwood op. cit., p. 845.

42
Andrew Roberts
Napoleon and Wellington
(London 2001) p. 159.

43
David G. Chandler
The Campaigns of Napoleon
(London 1967) p. 1092.

44
Longford
Sword
op. cit., pp. 348–9.

45
Brett-James p. 307.

46
Gurwood op. cit., p. 842.

47
Sweetman op. cit., p. 57.

48
Ibid., pp. 57–8.

49
Ian Fletcher
A Desperate Business
(London 2002) p. 33.

50
Jac Weiler
Wellington at Waterloo
(London 1967) p. 46.

51
Fletcher
Desperate Business
op. cit., p. 40.

52
Ibid., p. 41,

53
Ibid., p. 51.

54
David Hamilton-Williams
Waterloo: New Perspectives
(London 1993) p. 233.

55
Fletcher
Desperate Business
op. cit., p. 76.

56
Gronow p. 42.

57
Weiler
Waterloo
op. cit., p. 93.

58
Hamilton-Williams op. cit., p. 300.

59
Gronow p. 44.

60
Fletcher
Galloping
op. cit., p. 262.

61
John Selby (ed)
Thomas Morris
(London 1967) p. 141.

62
Sweetman op. cit., p. 64.

63
Gronow p. 44.

64
Selby p. 15.

65
Gronow p. 45.

66
Sweetman op. cit., p. 65.

67
Weiler
Waterloo
p. 121.

68
Ibid., p. 122.

69
Ibid.

70
Miller op. cit., p. 76.

71
Fletcher
Galloping
p. 273.

72
Kincaid
Adventures
p. 46.

73
Weiler
Waterloo
op. cit., p. 152.

74
Wellesley op. cit., p. 367.

75
Weiler
Waterloo
op. cit., p. 154.

76
Gurwood op. cit., p. 860.

77
Longford
Sword
op. cit., p. 486.

78
Gurwood p. 865.

79
Brett-James p. 310.

80
Cavalié Mercer
Journal of the Waterloo Campaign
(London 1985) p. 57.

81
Shelley I, p. 102.

  1
Elizabeth Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 57.

  2
Creevey op. cit., pp. 277–9.

  3
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 67.

  4
Guedalla pp. 314–5. Longford
Pillar
fn p. 68 points out that the same story is attributed to Lord Uxbridge (then Marquess of Anglesey), the 3
^rd
Marquess of Londonderry, and Theodore Hook. Whoever really said it deserved credit for quick thinking and not a little courage.

  5
Hibbert p. 222.

  6
Ibid., p. 227.

  7
Ibid., p. 231.

  8
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 87

  9
Guedalla op. cit., p. 318.

10
Ibid., pp. 324–5.

11
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 101.

12
Guedalla op. cit., p. 332.

13
Sweetman op. cit., p. 78.

14
Longford Pillar op. cit., p. 114.

15
Sweetman op. cit., p. 79.

16
Christopher Hibbert (ed)
Greville’s England
(London 1981) p. 26.

17
Croker p. 121.

18
Hibbert p. 260.

19
Gleig p. 335.

20
Croker p. 124.

21
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 157.

22
Guedalla op. cit., p. 356.

23
Ibid., p. 372.

24
Greville p. 46.

25
Hibbert op. cit., p. 274.

26
Gleig p. 349.

27
Greville p. 48.

28
Ibid., p. 47.

29
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 191.

30
Greville p. 51.

31
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 191.

32
Gronow p. 247.

33
Greville pp. 51—2.

34
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 199.

35
Ibid., p. 201.

36
Ibid.

37
Gurwood op. cit., p. 918.

38
Ibid., p. 927.

39
Cooper op. cit., p. 14.

40
Greville p. 65.

41
Ibid., pp. 76–7.

42
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 224.

43
Guedalla op. cit., p. 391.

44
Greville p. 80.

45
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 245.

46
Ibid., p. 257.

47
Ibid., p. 267.

48
Gleig p. 363.

49
Sweetman p. 99.

50
Greville p. 102.

51
Kenneth O. Morgan (ed)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
(Oxford 1992) p. 441.

52
Guedalla p. 407.

53
Ibid., p. 409.

54
Greville p. 107.

55
Guedalla op. cit., p. 419.

56
Ibid., p. 425.

57
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 313.

58
Guedalla p. 427.

59
Greville p. 139.

60
Sweetman op. cit., p. 116.

61
Ibid., p. 120.

62
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 363.

63
Lady Longford suggests that this may well be apocryphal, but it is worth including ‘for its distillation of the Wellingtonian spirit’. (Longford
Pillar
p. 390.)

64
Guedalla op. cit., p. 433.

  1
Gleig op. cit., p. 457.

  2
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 402.

  3
Gleig p. 459.

  4
Greville p. 239.

  5
Guedalla op. cit., p. 462.

  6
Ibid.

  7
Sweetman op. cit., p. 150.

  8
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 400.

  9
Greville p. 237–8.

10
Gleig pp. 495–6.

11
Ibid., p. 493.

12
Greville p. 239.

13
Gleig op. cit., p. 483.

14
Longford
Pillar
op. cit., p. 409.

15
Gleig op. cit., p. 492.

16
Ibid., pp. 485–6.

17
Ibid., p. 489.

18
Greville p. 237.

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76
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