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The Times, 22 June 1815
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Accession Number

NAM.1961-11-121-1

Description

Newspaper account of Waterloo in The Times, 22 June 1815, No. 9554. (An identical copy to 1971-12-1-2) The article includes a copy of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington’s Waterloo Dispatch to Earl Bathurst, his Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the War Department. Wellington writes his account of the Battle of Waterloo, dated 19 June 1815 - 4 days after the Battle. It includes the positions, attack, defence and victory of the Allied Forces (British, Prussian, Hanoverian and Dutch) over the French Army, from 15 to 18 June 1815. Includes an official bulletin from Downing Street regarding the defeat of the French and Napoleon Buonaparte’s (sic) vanity at believing he could defeat all. Also within the article is a Declaration by Louis Philip (sic) Duke of Orleans, encouraging the French people to support his cousin, King Louis XVIII. It also gives a list of the British officers killed and wounded. Associated with the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).

Events

Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo 1815)

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