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Manuscript orders, from Lt Col Sir Charles Broke, AQMG to Maj Gen Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur, Quarter-Master General’s Office Head Quarters, Louvres, 30 Jun 1815. Records planned movements and formations of the Army with their baggage at daybreak, 5 o’clock in the morning on the 1st July 1815. Mentions Lt Gen Lord Hill to march the 2nd Corps of the Army towards Pierrefitte to relieve General Bulow’s Prussian Corps and the Prussian Port at Aubervilliers, includes: Lt Baron Estorff’s Cavalry, 2nd Division, The Nassau Troops and the 4th Division. Maj Gen Sir John Byng to move the 1st Corps: Netherland (sic) Cavalry and Infantry, 1st and 3rd Division to relieve the Prussian Port at Le Bourget. Troops including the Brunswick Cavalry and Infantry, 5th and 6th Division, Reserve Artillery camped near Pont Ste. Maxence to move towards Louvres. One of twelve manuscript orders of the period 19 Jun to 7 Jul 1815, placed into one bound book when conserved. From Lt Col Sir Charles Broke, AQMG, to Maj Gen Sir John Vandeleur, Commander of the Cavalry, relating to the movements of the British and Allied forces after the Battle of Waterloo. Associated with the, Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).

Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815)