NAM.1975-12-105-8

Manuscript orders, from Lt Col Sir Charles Broke, AQMG to Maj Gen Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur, Quarter-Master General’s Office Head Quarters, Nesle, 27 Jun 1815. Records planned movements and formations of various Infantry and Cavalry brigades with their baggage at daybreak, 5 o’clock in the morning on the 28th June 1815. Mentions Lt Gen Lord Hill to march the 2nd Corps of the Army towards St. Just, includes: Lt Baron Estorff’s Cavalry, 2nd Division, The Nassau Troops and the 4th Division to join them at Petit-Crevecoeur. The British Cavalry to march from Roye to camps near Ressons. Headquarters will be at Orville. 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)