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Handwritten notes from ‘Reply to Major Gawler on his ‘Crisis at Waterloo’ by Lieutenant General Sir Richard Hussey Vivian
notes, papers
Accession Number

NAM.1968-07-348-2

Description

Handwritten notes taken from ‘Reply to Major Gawler on his ‘Crisis at Waterloo’ by Lt Gen Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, published in United Services Journal, No 56 part 2, Jul 1833. Unknown hand. Includes two columns on each side of the page: on one side are extracts of Gawler’s ‘Crisis at Waterloo’, on the other side is Sir Richard Hussey Vivian’s notes to confirm or correct Gawler’s accounts of events at the Battle of Waterloo in the extract. Sir Richard Hussey Vivian goes into detail recounting his accurate side of events at Waterloo, as he kept a daily diary, memorandum of events and of brigade movements at that period in time. End passages include: Quotations from various writers upon the Battle of Waterloo. Manuscript notes relating to the treatise on the Battle of Waterloo written by Lt Col George Gawler, 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry), 1815. Associated with the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).

Events

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

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