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Accession Number

NAM.1975-12-105-5

Description

Manuscript orders, Quarter Master General’s Office Head Quarters, Le Cateau, 25 Jun 1815. Records planned movements and formations of various Infantry and Cavalry brigades with their baggage at daybreak on the 26th June 1815. Includes: the 2nd Division of Infantry, the Nassau Troops, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th Brigade and mentions that the Head Quarters of the Cavalry will be at Beauvais. 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).

Campaigns

Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815)

Associated collection