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The London Gazette Extraordinary, Downing Street, Thursday 22 Jun 1815.
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Accession Number

NAM.1963-06-71-3

Description

Newspaper: The London Gazette Extraordinary, Downing Street, Thursday 22 Jun 1815. Waterloo Despatch. 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 Jun 1815 including positions, attack, defence and victory of the Allied Forces - the British, Prussian, Hanoverian and Dutch Army over the French, from 15 to 18 June 1815. Wellington emphasises and thanks the timely assistance of Marshall Blucher and the Prussian Army. He includes mention that two eagles taken by the troops in action will be brought to His Royal Highness by Major Percy with this dispatch. Includes a ‘List of Officers killed and wounded’. Part of several documents relating to Sir Frederick Ponsonby and his experiences at Waterloo, 1815. Associated with the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).

Events

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

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