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Title: Waterloo letters : a selection from original and hitherto unpublished letters bearing on the operations of the 16th, 17th, and 18th June, 1815, by officers who served in the campaign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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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^ the writerson the plan that accompanied it, and which posi-tions varied but little during the course of theday. As a rule, they were stationed along the crestof the position in front of the Infantr3^ and theirfire was directed upon the assaulting Columns ofFrench Cavalry and Infantry from the period oftheir formation until their near approach compelledthe Artillerymen to abandon their Guns for themoment, and to take refuge in or behind theInfantry Squares. One remarkable exception to the latter pro-ceeding was that of Mercers Troop, which two orthree times, by its own unaided fire, repelled thecharges of French Cavalry upon it.
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i^£l ROYAL ARTILLERY. 187 Hiii J. May. Durin- the intervals between these attacks the o fire of the Guns was mainly directed against theFrench Batteries. In the Greneral Advance, most of such Troopsand Batteries, or portions of them, as were in acondition to be moved, joined in it, and tookadvantage of favourable opportunities for openingtheir fire upon the retreating French. Numbers 80, 81, and 98 refer to the march onQuatre Bras. Numbers 98, 100, and 101 to Quatre Bras. Numbers 80, 81, 85, and 98 to the Eetreat onthe 17th; and all the Letters, except No. 101, toWaterloo. COLONEL SIR JOHN MAY, K.C.B. LiEUT.-CoLONEL, AssisT. Adjutant-Gexeral Eoyal Artillery. Memoeandum. Woolwich, Dec. 2Wi, ism. ^q, 77 At the middle and end of the day, the British Horse Waterloo.Artillery was much with the Cavalry, to which it wasattached. The Reserve Horse Artillery on the ridge o£ the Positions ofhill, and the Troops and Brigades^ attached to Infantry ^^^ Artillery.Divisions were with the same unde

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