NAM.1974-06-35-74

Letter from Lt W Siborne, Assistant Military Secretary to Lt Col Henry Murray, 18th Hussars, possibly written by an assistant as Siborne is referred to in the third person, Dublin, 4 Feb 1836. Siborne gives his sincere thanks to Murray for his kindness in having responded in such interesting detail to his first letter requesting information about the positions and movements of the 18th Hussars at the Battle of Waterloo, 18 Jun 1815 thus aiding his construction of the Model of the Field and Battle of Waterloo. Mentions Murray's name will be in the note of thanks and acknowledgements which will go alongside his finished Model. Siborne asks Murray about the formation of the Hanoverian Brigade (led by Colonel Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Ompteda) in relation to the French Tirailleurs' position and any other observations near the Genappes Chaussée. 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)