BATTLE OF WATERLOO,

Translated from the French, with Notes, and Dedicated,

by Permission, to

FIELD MARSHAL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

FREDERICK DUKE or YORK, AND ALBANY, K. G. &c. &e,

BY CAPTAIN ARTHUR GORE,

30th REGIMENT OF FOOT

AN

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

BATTLE OF WATERLOO,

FOUGHT ON THE 18th JUNE, 1815.

BETWEEN THE ANGLO- ALLIED ARMY,

DUKE OF WELLINGTON,

SUPPORTED BY A PART OF THE

PRUSSIAN ARMY COMMANDED BY

FIELD MARSHAL PRINCE BLUCHER,

OF WAHLSTADT,

AND THE FRENCH ARMY,

UNDER THE COMMAND OF

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,

INTENDED TO EXPLAIN AND ELUCIDATE THE

TOPOGRAPHICAL PLAN,

EXECUTED BY W. B. CRAAN, J. U. D.
Examining Engineer of the Government Surveys of South Brabant.

"There is none of you so mean and base
That hath not noble lustre in your eye;
I see you stand like grey hounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's a-foot,
Follow your spirit; and upon this charge,

Cry,

God

for ARTHUR, England, and St. George !"
SHAKESPEARE.

BRUSSELS:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY T. PARKIN,

No. 786, RUE VILLA HERMOSA.

1817.

as desies in the Exete

HENRY MORSE STEPHENS

ΤΟ

FIELD MARSHAL

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS,

FREDERICK DUKE OF YORK AND ALBANY, K.G. G.C.B,

Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces,

&c. &c. &c.

BRUSSELS, 17th MARCH, 1817.

SIR,

THE internal economy and discipline of

His Majesty's Armies, having arrived at the highest state of perfection under the auspices of Your Royal Highness, the World must acknowledge to how great an extent you have contributed to the splendid and glorious results of the last campaign.

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