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Manuscript orders, from Lt Col Sir Charles Broke, AQMG to Maj Gen Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur - Commanding the Cavalry, Quarter-Master General’s Office Head Quarters, Le Cateau, 24 Jun 1815. Records movements of troops: Lt Gen Lord Hill to march the two brigades of the 10th Division from Le Cateau to possibly Cambray. Involves the 2nd and 4th divisions. Maj Gen Sir John Byng to march his troops from the camp at Gommegnies to then camp between the villages of Croix and Bousies. Maj Gen Sir John Vandeleur to patrol the roads towards St. Quentin. 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)