NAM.1975-12-105-6

Manuscript orders, from Lt Col Sir Charles Broke, AQMG to Maj Gen Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur, Quarter-Master General’s Office Head Quarters, 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 1st and 3rd Division, the Belgian Cavalry and possibly the Netherland Army leaving their camp at Premont towards Vermand. Also mentions the 5th and 6th Division and the Brunswick Cavalry and Infantry to march towards Magny. 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)