NAM.1974-06-35-65

Letter from Lt Col Henry Murray to Lt W Siborne, Assistant Military Secretary, Wimbledon, 27 Dec 1834. Murray responds to Siborne's letter, dated 1 Nov 1834 in Dublin, asking him for information on the Battle of Waterloo in relation to the 18th Hussars formation, the composition of the fields and the positions, movements and formations of the contending armies around seven p. m. on 18 June 1815 (as Siborne was making a Model of the Field and Battle of Waterloo). Murray acknowledges the credibility and accuracy of Sir Hussey Vivian's letters in the United Service Journal about the battle, however when compared to Major Gawler and Sir Thomas Reynell's accounts they don't entirely coincide. Questions from Siborne's letter and Murray's answers written out in short hand in columns: Notes to the Inquiry, Inquiry, Notes to the answers, answers. One of five letters with similar content from Lt Col Henry Murray to Lt W Siborne, Assistant Military Secretary, Wimbledon, 27 Dec 1834. From a collection of papers of Lt Col Sir Henry Murray of the period 1813-1860 (c). Associated with the Battle of Waterloo (1815).

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