6th drag. lieut. col. Muter (col.) stly. maj. F. S. Miller (lieut.-col.) capts. W. F. Brown, hon, S. Douglas, lieut. A. Hassard, sev. 7th hussars, capts, T. W. Robins, W. Vernor, P. A. Heyliger, lieuts. R. Douglas, E. Peters, R. Beattie, sev. 10th hussars, lieut. col. G. Quentin (col.) capts. J. Gurwood, C. Wood, lieuts. R. Arnold, A. Bacon, sev. capt. J. Grey, stly. 11th light dragoons, capt. J. A. Schreiber, lieut. R. R. Coles, stly. licuts. F. Wood, R, Milligan, sev. 12th light drag. lieut.-col, F. C. Ponsonby (col) capt. E. Sandys, sev. lieut, W. H. Dowbeggen, stly. 13th light drag. lieut.-col. S. Boyce, capts. J. Doherty, G. Doherty, C. Bowers, licuts. J. H. Irwin, J. Mill, G. H. Pack, sitly. ficuts. J. Gale (since dead), J. Pymm (since dead), sev. 15th hussars, lieut. col. L. Dalrymple (leg. amputated), capts. J. Thackwell (arm ampu. tated), J. R. Whiteford, lieuts. W. Byam, H. Buckley (since dead), sev. lients. E. Byam, G. A. Dawkins, stly. 16th light drag. lieut.-col. J. Hay, lieut. N. D. Crichton, sev. capt. R. Weyland, lieut. W. Osten, stly. 1 col.) lieut. hon. R. Clements (capt.) and ens. R. Bruce, sev. capt. G. Fead (lieut.-col.) lieut. C. P. Ellis (capt.) ens. R. Batty, stly. Coldstream guards, 2d bat. capt. D. K. Kinnon (lieut.-col.) and ens. J. Montague, stly. capt. H. Wyndham (lieut.-col.) lieuts. E. Sumner (capt) hon. R. Moore (capt.) ensigns H. F. Griffiths and H. Vane, sev. 3d guards, 2d bat. capt. C. Dashwood (lieut. col.) lieuts. G. Evelyn (capt.) H. Montgo merie, ensigns C. Lake, D. Baird, C. Simpson (since dead), sev. capts. E. Bowater (lieut. col.) E. West (lieut..col.) and lieut. R. B. Hesketh, stly. 1st foot, 3d bat. maj. C. Campbell (lieut.col.) capts. R. M'Donald and H. Massey (majors), lieuts. A. Morrison, G. Lane, J. F. Miller, W. Dobbs, ens. L. M. Cooper, sev. capt. R. Arguimban (maj.) lieuts. R. H. Scott and J. L. Black, ensigns T. Stevens and J. M'Kay, quart.-mast. T. Griffiths, stly. 4th foot, 1st bat. capts. G. D. Wilson and J. C. Edgill, lieut. R. Gerard, ens. W. M. Matthews, stly. lieuts. J. Brown, G. Smith, H. Boyd, W. Squires, and adj. W. M. Richardson, sev. 14th foot, 3d bat. ens. A. Cooper, stly. 23d foot, 1st bat. lieut.-col. sir H.W. Ellis, k. c. b. (col. since dead), maj. J. H. E. Hîîí (lieut.-col.) lieut. W. A. Griffiths, sev. capt. H. Johnson, lieuts. J. Clyde and R. D. Sidley, stly. 27th foot, 1st bat. capt. J. Hare (maj.) and ens. J. Ditmas, stly. capt. J. Tucker, lieuts G. M. M'Donald, W. Henderson, R. Handcock, W. Fortescue, T. Craddock, E. W. Drew, C. Manley, J. Millar, ens. T. Smith, and E. Handcock, sev. 28th foot, maj. R. Nixon (lieut.-col.) capts. R. Llewellyn (maj.) T. English, W. F. Wilkinson, R. P. Gilbert, H. Hillyard, C. B. Carruthers, J. T. Clarke, G. Ingram (since dead), ens. J. Mountsteven, sev. capts. R. Kelly, J. W. Shelton, J. Deares, adj. T. Bridgland, stly. 30th foot, majors W. Bailey, C. A. Vigereux (lieut.-cols.) lieuts. J. Rumby, J. Pratt, W. O. Warren, sev. capt. A. Gore, lieuts. R. C. Elliot, R. Hughes, T. Moneypenny, R. Daniel, T. Roe (2d), adj. M. Andrews, stly. 32d foot, capt H. Harrison, lieuts. T. Hogan, J. Jage, ensigns J. M'Conchy, J. Birtwhistle, W. Bennet, adj. D. Davies, sev. lieuts. T. Rosslewin, J. Colthurst, stly. 33d foot, capts. C. Knight, J. M. Harty, adj. W. Thain, stly. lieuts. T. Reid, R. Westmore, S. Pagan, T. Haight, J. Cameron (since dead), ensigns W. Bain, Drury, sev. 18th hussars, lieut. C. Hesse, adj. H. Duperiere, sev. 23d light drag. maj. J. M. Cutcliffe, capt. T. Gerrard (maj.) lieut. T. B. Wall, sev. capt. C. W. Dance, lieut. B. Disney, stly. 1st light drag. k. g. 1. lieut.-col. J. Bulow, capt. B. Bothmer, lieut. O. Hammerstein, cornets S. Ile Vanne and Tritton, sev. maj. A. Reitzenstein, capts. P Sichart, G. Hattorf, lieuts. W. Mackenzie, H. Bosse, adj. W. Tricke, stly. 2d light drag. k. g. 1. lieut.-cols. C. de Jonquires and C. Maydell, stly. capt. T. Har ling, lieut. H. H. C. Ritter, and cornet F. Loveby, sev. 1st hussars, k. g. 1. lieut. G. Baring, stly. 2d hussars, k. g. 1. lieut.-col. L. Meyer, lieuts. Hermun, True, and C. Ochlkers, cornets C. Dussel and Hous Hodenberg, all sev. capts. Q. Goeben and W. Schuchen, cornet F. Floyer, all stly. Royal artil. British, maj. W. Lloyde, capts. C. Napier, J. Parker (maj.) leg amputated, lients. W. L. Brereton, W. L. Robe (since dead), M. Cromie (both legs amputated), H. Foster, C. Spearman, F. Manners (since dead), T. Harvey (right arm amputated), and W. Poule, all sev. capts. R. Bull (maj.) E. C. Whinyates, C. C. Dansey, R. Macdonald, W. Webber, T. F. Strangeways, lieuts. W. Smith, D. Crawford, and J. Day, all stly. Reyal artil. k. g. 1. capt. A. Sympher, stly. capt. W. Brann, lieuts. L. Erythropel and L. Heisse, sev. Royal engineers, lieut. J. W. Pringle, stly. Royal staff, capt. T. Wright, stly. lieut. G. D. Hall, sev. 1st guards, 2d hat. capts. R. H. Cooke (lieut. col.) and W. H. Milnes (lieut.-col. since dead), lieuts. F. Luttrel (capt.) and S. W. Burgess (capt.) sev. ens. H. Lascelles, stly. 1st guards, 3d bat. capt. H. D'Oyley (lieut. 40th foot, capts. C. Ellis, J. H. Barnet, lieuts, R. Moore, J. Mill, J. Anthony, hon, M. Brown, ensigns F. Ford, J. Clarke, sev. lieuts. J. Campbell, J. Robb, stly. 42d foot, capt. M. M'Pherson, lieuts. H. A. Fraser, J. Brander, Q. M. Donald M⭑Intosh, sltly. lieuts. J. Orr, G. G. Monro, sev. 44th foot, maj. G. O'Mealy (lieut.-col.) stly. lieut. J. Burke, adj. T. M‘Cann, sev. 51st foot, capt. S. Beardesley, sev. licut, C. W. Tyndale, stly. 328 foot, maj. C. Rowan (lieut.-col.) stly. capts, C. Diggle, J. F. Love (maj.) lieuts. C, Daysun Killed and Wounded at Waterloo. Dawson, M. Anderson (left leg amputated), G. Campbell, T. Cotingham, adj. J. Winterbottom, sev. 69th foot, capt. L. Watson (maj.) ensigns H. Anderson, E. Hodder, sev. 71st foot, 1st bat. lieut.-col. T. Reynell (col.) capts. D. Campbell, C. Johnson (maj.) lieuts. J. Barralier, C. Lewin, J. Roberts, J. Coote, adj. W. Anderson, stly. maj. A. Jones (lieut.-col.) capts. W. A. Grant, J. Henderson, lieuts. J. R. Elves (since dead), R. Lind, R. Lawe, sev. 73d foot, lieut.-col. W. G. Harris (col.) maj. A. M'Lean, capts, H. Coane, W. Wharton, J. Garland, lieuts. M'Connel, T. Reynolds, D. Brown (left arm amputated), ensigns W. M'Bean, G. Bridge, adj. P. Hay, sev. ens. C. Eastwood, stly 79th foot, capts. J. Campbell, N. Campbell, J. Cameron (since dead), lieuts. J. Pow ling, D. Cameron, E. Cameron, sev. lieuts. A. Cameron, C. M'Arthur, A. Forbes, ensigns J. Nash, A. S. Crauforde, stly. 92d foot, capts. P. Wilkie, A. Ferrier, lieut. J. K. Ross, stly. lieuts. R. Winchester, D. M'Donald, J. Hope, sev. 95th foot, 1st bat. lieut.-col, sir A. F. Bernard, k. c. b. (col.) stly. maj. A. Cameron (lieut.-col.) capts. E. Chawner, W. Johnstone, 1st lieuts. J. Malloy, J. Gardiner, G. Simmons, J. Stillwell (since dead), 2d lieuts. A. Stewart, J. Wright, J. Church, sev. 95th foot, 2d bat. majors A. G. Norcott and G. Wilkins (lieut.-cols.) capts. G. Miller (maj.) J. McCulloch (left arm amputated), lieuts. W. Humbly, E. Coxon, J. Ridgway, J. Lynam, R. Eyre, J. Walsh, sev. lieuts. D. Cameron, R. Cochrane, J. Fry, V. Webb, stly. 95th foot, 3d bat. maj. J. Ross (lieut.-col.) capt. J. Fullerton (maj.) 1st lieuts. J. T. Worsley, G. H. Shenley, sev. 1st light bat. k. g. 1. maj. H. Bussche (right arm amputated), capt. F. Gilsa, lieuts. C. Heisse, K. Wolrabe, H. Leonhart, ensigns C. Behne, A. Heisse, sev. lieut. A. Koster, ens. A. Gentzkow, stly. 2d light bat. k. g. 1. lieuts. F. Kessler, O. Luidam, B. Reifkugel, G. D. Grame, ens. G.Franck, adj. D. Timmann, sev. lieuts. G. Meyer, M. Jobin, T. Carrey, stly. 1st line bat. k. g. 1. maj. W. Robertson, éapts. Gerlach, Schlutter, lieuts. A. Mul ler, H. Wilding, ensign H. Lecken, adj. F. Schnath, sev. 2d line bat. k. g. 1. capt. F. Purgold, lieut. C. Decken, sev. 3d line bat. k. g. 1. maj. A. Boden, lieuts. F. Jansen, F. Leschen, sev. lieuts. A. and E. Kuckuck, stly. 4th line bat. k. g. 1. maj. G. Chuden (since dead), lieut. W. L de la Farque, adj. A, Hartwig, sev. capt. F. Heisse, licuts. C. Both, A. Langworth, ens. A. Oppunn, stly. 5th line bat. k. g. l. capt. F. Sander, lieuts. C. Berger, G. Klinsohr, sev. 8th line bat. k. g. 1. capt. C. Rougemont, ens. W. Mareau, adj. T. Brumann, sev. lieut. C. Sadler, stly. 3d bat. roy. Scots, volun. R. Blacklin, stly. 95th foot, 1st bat. volunteer C. Smith, stly. MISSING. 665 Staff, k. g. 1. capt. C. D. Robers, brig.-maj. General staff, lieut. E. Gerstlachen, 3d hussars, k. g. I. dep.-asst.-adj.-gen. wounded. 2d life guards, lieut. S. Weymouth. Royal horse guards (blue), capt. J. Thoyts. 1st dragoon guards, lieut.-col. W. Fuller, (col.) severely wounded; capt. H. Graham; lieut. F. Brooke, severely wounded; cornet hon. H. B. Bernard. 1st dragoons, cornet R. Magniac. 6th dragoons, lieut. P. Ruffo, 23d light dragoons, lieut. S. Coxon. 2d light bat. k. g. 1. capt. E. Holzermana, wounded. British and Hanoverians killed, wounded, and missing, in the Battles of the 16th, 17th, and 18th, of June. Officers killed, 148; non-commissioned, 144; rank and file, 2140.-Officers wounded, 670; non-commissioned, 536; rank and file, 8230.-Officers missing, 28; non-commissioned, 74; rank and file, 1773.- -Grand total, 13,833. General Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing, of the Allied Army, under Field Marshal, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, K. B. and G.C. B. in action with the Enemy, on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of June. JUNE 16. Officers. Non-eom. Rank and K.W.M. K. W. M.K. W. M. 25 2 2 General Staff Royal Artil. Ist Ges. 2d bat. 1st Gds. 3d bat. 1 6 3d Gds. 2d bat. R. Scots, 3d b. 28th Foot 30th Ft. 2d b. 32d Foot 33d Foot 42d Foot ... 612 4 2 121 21 149 37 315 214 40214 44th Ft. 2d b. 69th Ft. 2d b. 215 14 4 6 33 104 73d Ft. 2d bat. 79th Ft. 1st b. 92d Foot 95th Ft. 1st b. .... General Staff Ist Life Gds. R.H.Gd. (blue) 1st or R. Drag. 7th Hussars 11th Lt. Drag. 13th Lt. Drág. 18th Hussars.. 23d Lt. Drag. 2d or K.G.L... 1st Hus.K.G.L. 30th Ft. 2d bat. 33d Ft. 2d bat. 69th Ft. 2d bat. 734 Ft. 2d bat. 39 57 616 5 12 62 17 10 23 3 27 92 10 18 47 I 5 2 3 71 150 891 IC 107 16 17 137 R. Staff Corps 1st Ft. G. 2d b. I S 7 Ist ditto, 3d b. 31 7 2d Coldstr G. 7 63229 210 57 178 9 71 196/350 5 33 ERRATA in the Supplement to the London Gazette, published on Monday, July 3, 1815: Omitted in the return of Officers killed, Capt. Chambers, 1st foot guards, aide-de-camp to lieut.-gen. Sir Thomas Picton.-Omitted in the return of Officers wounded, Lieut-col Lord Fitzroy Somerset, military secretary to the Duke of Wellington, severely, right arm amputated. Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing, of the Allied Army, in the assault_and taking of Cambray, on the 24th of June. Total- lieut. 7 rank and file, killed; a 4 lieuts. I ensign, I serjeant, 25 rank and file, wounded. 42 145 14 I Names of the Officers killed and wounded. KILLED. 23d foot, second lieut. William Leebody. WOUNDED. 14th foot, 3d bat. ensign Arthur Ormsby', slightly. 91st foot, 1st bat. lieut. Andrew Cathcart, severely; lieut. James Black, slightly. Return of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing, of the Allied Army, in the assault and taking of Peronne, on the 26th of June, 1815. Fotal-1 rank and file, killed; capt. ↑ 14 50 15 lieut. 1 serjeant, 9 rank and file, wounded. 44102 41 27129 I 32173 20 Names of the Officers wounded. Royal Engineers, cept. Alex. Thompson, slightly. Royal Sappers and Miners, sub-lieutenant, 3 357 William Strutton, slightly. The above is the loss of the British and Hanoverians, who formed about half the army under the Duke of Wellington; while the Prussian army, under Blucher and Bulow, were nearly double the army under the Duke of Wellingtons making a total of 200,000 men before the battle. The French army exceeded 100,000 men; i. e. from 70 to 80,000 under Napoleon, at Mont St. Jean, and 25,000 under Marshal Grouchy, at Wavres. The Prince of Moskwa on the Battle of Waterloo, BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Letter from Marshal the Prince of Moskwa, to the Duke of Otranto. [We copy this document from the public journals as illustrative of the recent events in Flanders and France, and of the want of concert and cordiality in the leaders of the late French government.] REPORTS of a most false and defamatory nature having for some days been publicly circulated respecting my conduct in this short and unfortunate campaign, I address myself to you as Fresident of the Provisional Govern ment, in order to lay before you a faithful relation of the circumstances which came under my observation. On the 11th of June I received an order from the minister at war to repair to the Imperial head-quarters. I had no command, and possessed no information on the force and composition of the army. Neither the emperor nor the minister had previously said any thing to me which could give me the slightest idea that I was to be employed in the campaign. I was consequently called upon in a state quite unprepared, without horses, equipage, or money, and I was obliged to borrow in order to enable me to reach my destination. I arrived on the 12th at Laon, on the 13th at Avesnes, and on the 14th at Beaumont, in which last place I purchased from the Duke of Treviso two horses, with which I proceeded to Charleroi, accompanied by my first aide-de-camp, the only officer I had with I arrived at the moment when the enemy, having been attacked by our light troops, were falling back upon Fleurus and Gossellies. me. The emperor immediately ordered me to put myself at the head of the 1st and 2d corps of infantry, commanded by Lieût.-gens. Erlon and Reille, Lieut.-gen. Pire's division of light cavalry of the guard, under the orders of Lieut.-gen. Lefebvre Desnouettes, and Colbert, and of two divisions of the Count de Valmy's cavalry, forming altogether eight divisions of infantry and four divisions of cavalry. With these troops, of which, however, I had only a part disposeable, I pushed the enemy, and obliged him to evacuate Cossellies, Frasnes, Mellet, and Hep piegnies; there the troops took a position, with the exception of the 1st corps, which was still at Marchiennes, and which did not join me until next day. On the 16th I was ordered to attack the English in their position at Quartre Bras. We marched against the enemy with an enthusiasm which it would be difficult to describe. Nothing could resist our impetuosity; the battle became general, and victory was not doubtful, when, at the moment in which I wished to bring forward the 1st corps of infantry which I had left at Frasnes, I learned that the emperor had disposed of them without giving me information, as well as GiMONTHLY MAG. No. 261. 667 rard's division of a second corps, which was warmly engaged with the Prussians. The mortification I received from this news was terrible. Having now under my command but three divisions instead of eight, on which I had relied, I was obliged to allow vica tory to escape from my hands; and, notwith standing all my efforts, and in spite of the bravery and devotedness of my troops, it was impossible to do mare than to maintain myself in my position until the close of the day. About nine o'clock the first corps was returned to me by the emperor, to whom they had been of no service. Thus between ag and 30,000 men had been for that time, as it were, paralized, having been obliged during the whole of the battle to march with their arms on their shoulders, from the left to the right, and from right to the left, without firing a single musket. Here I cannot help suspending these de tails, to call your attention to the consequences of this false movement, and in general to the bad dispositions adopted that day. By what fatality, for example, did the emperor, instead of directing all his force against Lord Wellington, who would have been taken unawares and unprepared, regard this attack as secondary? How could the emperor, after the passage of the Sambre, conceive it to be possible to fight two battles in one day? This was, however, what took place against forces double of ours, and which the officers who saw it can still with diffi culty comprehend. Had he, instead of doing this, left a corps of observation to hold the Prussians in check, and marched with his largest masses to support me, the English army would undoubtedly have been destroyed between Quatre Bras and Genappe, and that position which separated the two allied armies once in our power, would have af forded the emperor an opportunity of outflanking the right of the Prussians, and Crushing them in their turn. The generat opinion in France, and particularly in the army, was, that the emperor would in the first place turn his attention solely to the destruction of the English army, and for that circumstances were very favourable-but fate has ordered it otherwise. On the 17th the army marched in the di rection of Mount St. Jean. On the 18th the battle commenced at one o'clock, and, though the bulletin which gives an account of it does not mention my name, I believe that I have occasion to affirm that I was present. Lieut. gen. Comte Drouet has already spoken of this battle in the Chamber of Peers, and his relation is correct, with the exception, however, of some important facts, which he either suppressed or knew not, but which it is my duty to disclose. About seven in the evening, after the most dreadful carnage I ever witnessed, General Labedoyere came to inform me, on the part of the emperor, that Marshal Grouchy had ariived on our right, and was attacking the 4 P lett left of the united English and Prussians. The General in passing through the lines, circulated this news among the soldiers, whose courage and devotedness remained unaltered, and who were giving fresh proofs of it at that moment, notwithstanding the fatigue with which they were exhausted. But what was my astonishment, I ought to say indignation, when I learned a few moments afterwards, that not only Marshal Grouchy had not arrived to our support, as the whole army had been taught to believe, but that between 40 and 50,coo Prussians were attacking our extreme right, and forcing it to fall back. Either the Emperor had deceived himself as to the time in which Marshal Grouchy could have been able to support him, or the march of the Marshal had been more retarded by the efforts of the enemy than bad been calculated upon. The fact is, that, at the moment when the arrival was announced to us, he was still only in the neighbourhood of Wavres on the Dyle; which, with regard to us, was the same as if he had been a hundred leagues from the place of battle. Soon after I observed the arrival of four regiments of the middle guard, led by the Emperor in person, who wished to renew the attack with these troops, in order to penetrate the enemy's centre. He ordered me to march at their head with General Friant. Generals, officers, soldiers, all displayed the greatest intrepidity. But the corps was too weak to resist for any length of time the forces which were employed to oppose it, and we had soon to renounce the hope which this attack for a few moments afforded. General Friant was struck by a ball by my side. I had a horse killed and was thrown down under him. The brave men who have survived this battle will, I trust, do me the justice to state, that they saw me fighting foot to foot, sword in hand, and that I was one of the last who left the scene of carnage, at the moment when obliged to retreat. Meanwhile the Prussians continued their offensive movement, and our right was sensibly giving way; the English in their turn advanced. There yet remained to us four squares of the old guard placed advantage ously for the retreat; these brave grenadiers, the elite of the army who were forced to fall back successively, only yielded the ground foot by foot, until, finally overpowered by numbers, they were almost completely destroyed. From that time the retrograde movement was most decided, and the army formed only a confused column; there was however then no shouting, nor cry of sauve qui peut, as has been calumniously imputed to the army in the Bulletin. For myself, being continually in the rear-guard, which I followed on foot, having had all my horses killed, worn out with fatigue, covered with contusions, and having no longer any strength to walk, I owe my life to a corporal of the guard, who supported me in the march, and never abandoned me in this retreat. About eleven at night I fell in with Lieut.General Lefebvre Des..ouettes; and one of his officers, Major Schmidt, had the generosity to give me the only horse which remained to lum. Thus I arrived at Marchiennes-au-pont, at four in the morning, alone, without officers, ignorant of the fate of the Emperor, whom, some time before the termination of the battle, I had entirely lost sight of, and whom I supposed to be killed or taken. General P. Lacroix, chief of the staff of the second corps, whom I found in this city, having told me that the Emperor was at Charleroi, I supposed that his Majesty intended to place himself at the head of Marshal Grouchy's corps, in order to cover the Sambre, and to facilitate to the troops the me rs of rallying near Avesnes, and, in this ersuasion I proceeded to Beaumont, but parties of ca valry having followed us very closely, and intercepted the roads to Maubeuge and Philippeville, I found it to be impossible to stop a single soldier on this point, so as to oppose the progress of a victorious enemy. I continued my journey to Avesnes, where I could obtain no information concerning the Emperor. In this state of things, having neither any news of his Majesty, nor of the Major-gene ral, the disorder increasing at every instant, and, with the exception of a few regiments of the guard and of the line, each one pursu ing his own course, I determined on proceeding immediately to Paris, by Saint Quentin, to acquaint the Minister of War as quickly as possible with the true situation of affairs, in order that he might at least send some fresh troops to meet the army, and to adopt rapidly such measure as circumstances might require. On my arrival at Bourget, three leagues from Paris, I learnt that the Emperor had passed through that place at nine in the morning. Such is, my Lord Duke, an exact recital of this unfortunate campaign. I now ask those who have survived that fine and numerous army, in what way I can be accused of the disaster of which it has just been the victim, and of which our military annals furnish no example? I have, it is said, betrayed the country: 1, who to serve it, have always shewn a zeal which I have perhaps carried too far, and which may have misled me; but this calumny is not and cannot be supported by any fact, any circumstance, of any presumption. NEY, Prince of the Moskwa, Paris, June 26, 1815. GENERAL |