Identifier: waterlooletterss00sibo (find matches)
Title: Waterloo letters : a selection from original and hitherto unpublished letters bearing on the operations of the 16th, 17th, and 18th June, 1815, by officers who served in the campaign
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Siborne, H.T. (Herbert Taylor)
Subjects: Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Publisher: London : Cassell & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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ies of Cavalry,invariably Heavy. Towards the close of the day we were well up withVivians Brigade till halted for the night, when we wereunable to obtain water. Having been with the Regiment in these momentousdays, and being the Oflicer ordered in search of the 3rdHussars on the 20th, I have a perfect recollection of lolienI found old Baron Arentsschild and his Corps, and the kindreception they gave me. Yours, &c., A. T. Maclean,Lieut.-Col. H.P., 13th Dragoons. Combat of 7thHussars atGenappe. I was the Officer who commanded the rear guard on theNth, and held the approach to Hougoumont on the 18th.I am not aware that you make any mention of the 7thHussars and their fight on the 17th in Genappe, whenthey so gallantly checked the Enemys advance by repeatedcharges when it was impossible for them to penetrate thedense Column that pressed them through the narrow longstreet of that village, flanked by a nasty marshy ravinehardly practicable from the torrents of rain that fell at thetime.
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GRANTS CAVALRY BRIGADE. 141 I.VjII liVHHAliH. I witnessed the charge made by tlie Life Guards when Cfuirgo of iHtthe 7th made way for them, thus aUowiiif^ the FrenchCavahy to clear the viHar^e and form up in its front, whenthey were more easily vanquislied than when checked hythe 7th. It occurs to me this instant that in the second advancemade by the Brigade, when it suffered so severely, oneTroop of the 13th lost all its officers—Captain Gubbins, Tho formerLieutenants Geale and Pym. I mention this as I observe t^oiiittoryou specify Officers^ names of other Corps, and when they wounded,fell. The 15th or Khstgs Hussaus. LIEUT.-COLONEL J. THACKWELL. Captain 15th Hussars. Gloucester, December 20th, 1834. No. 68. Before I reply to your queries I had better here state Waterloo,that the Squadrons of the Regiment were not more thanfrom fifty-two to fifty-five files, including Officers (each),and that one Squadron and a Division of another were A Squadrondetached from the Regiment on the mo

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