circular, order
Accession Number

NAM.1968-07-397-10

Description

Circular in hand of Maj Gen Sir Charles Broke Vere, addressed to the General Officers Commanding the 6th Division, dated Paris, 29 Oct 1815. The circular instructs officers to ensure highest degree of discipline and regulation for troops about to enter cantonments in France (likely as part of the Allied army of occupation following Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo). From a collection of papers relating to Gen Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole; associated with the Peninsular War (1808-1814) and the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).

Events

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

Associated collection