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Waterloo Letters
Herbert Taylor Siborne, 1891
Named on the page for Battle of Waterloo.
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Passages that name the battle; the whole book is at Internet Archive.
18 June 1815
Battle of Waterloo
PREFACE.
When my father^ the late Captain William Siborne, Unattached, was engaged in the construction of his ^Nlodel of the Battle of Waterloo, he was authorised by the General Commauding-in-Chief — Lord Hill — to issue a Circular Letter to the several surviving Officers of the Battle who might be in a position to afford him the in- formation necessary for the completion of his undertaking. Copies of this letter, and of" the plan which accompanied it (on one half the original scale), are annexed.
PREFACE.
Many families and individuals will here find re- corded the original accounts given by relatives who served in the Waterloo Campaign of what they experienced and of the parts which they played in it.
PREFACE.
As a rule, however, statements of a purely private or irrelevant nature, repetitions in subsequent letters by the same writer, and information regarding the state of the crops on the Field of Waterloo (necessary for the construc- tion of the Model), are omitted.
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The following may be considered as the order of the different operations of the Campaign, and principal phases of the Battle of Waterloo, to which the letters chiefly refer : —
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