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History of the Waterloo Campaign

A Greenhill Book

Published in 1990 and 1995 by Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal Limited
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This edition published in 2016 by

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Publishing History
History of the Waterloo Campaign was first published in 1848 under the title History of the War in France and Belgium in 1815 (T. and W. Boone) and the text is reproduced now exactly as the original edition, complete and unabridged, with additional illustrations and maps.

Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY

TO THE

QUEENS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

MADAM,

IN graciously deigning to accept the dedication of these pages, Your Majesty has afforded the greatest possible encouragement to my humble endeavours to record, with simplicity, impartiality, and truth, the incidents of an eventful war, resulting in a long enduring peace; a war which shed a new and brighter lustre on the valour and discipline of the British Army, and once more called forth the consummate sagacity and far-extending prescience of that illustrious Chief, whom Your Majesty, with wise appreciation and a just pride, retains at its head.

Earnestly hoping that the result of those endeavours may prove not altogether undeserving of Your Majestys approbation,

I have the honour to be,

With profound respect,

MADAM,

Your Majestys most humble

And most devoted servant,

WILLIAM SIBORNE,

Captain Unattached.

PREFACE

TO THE THIRD EDITION.

IN offering to the Public this Third Edition, I feel called upon to state, by way of explanation, in what respect it differs from the two former editions. During the interval which has elapsed, I have not failed to avail myself of every opportunity to correct and improve any points which further investigation rendered desirable; and I have been much gratified in finding that the general plan and arrangement of the work, together with the elucidation of the military operations, and the views of their tendency and effect, have been generally borne out and approved; and that, consequently, in these repects little alteration has been required.

The exceptions, which consist principally in details, and amount in number to only four or five, have been rectified in this edition. They are chiefly the result of discussions which have appeared in the pages of the United Service Magazine, and relate to a portion of the proceedings of Sir Colin Halketts and Sir Denis Packs brigades at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo.

Through the kindness of His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador, Chevalier Bunsen, and of the Prussian Generals von Canitz and von Krauseneck, and of Major Gerwien of the Prussian headquarters staff, I have obtained additional interesting details connected with the Prussian operations; more especially as regards the opening of the campaign.

A Dutch work published, apparently under authority, by Major Van Lben Sels, Aide-de-camp to his Royal Highness Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, and entitled Bdragen tot de Krgsgeschiedenis van Napoleon Bonaparte, of which I was not previously in possession, has enabled me to give additional particulars respecting the movements and dispositions of the most advanced portion of the Dutch-Belgian troops, on the first advance of the enemy; and also to explain particular circumstances and qualify some observations respecting those troops which appeared in former editions.

Section through Mt. S. Jean, La Haye Sainte, La Belle Alliance, Rossomme, Le Caillou.

The Editor of an article in The Quarterly Review, No. CLL, entitled Marmont, Siborne, and Alison, having, in his comments upon this work, denied the accuracy of one or two important facts therein stated, I have, in notes at , entered into more minute details, which explain the grounds that warrant me in adhering to the original statements.

The observations made in the Preface of a volume of Murrays Home and Colonial Library, entitled The Story of Waterloo, and the palpable embodyment of the present work into the pages of the latter, have been such as could scarcely fail to attract attention, and I have accordingly appended to this edition, in a separate form, some remarks upon that publication. Public opinion (if I may judge by the unanimous consent of the press) having so distinctly pronounced its acknowledgment of the value of my work, as one of history, I could not disregard the conduct of a writer, who, in the first place endeavours to depreciate that value, and then unblushingly makes the most ample and unlicensed use of it for his own purposes.

W. SIBORNE.

18th June, 1848.

PREFACE

TO THE SECOND EDITION.

THE circumstance of the first edition having been sold off within a very few days, combined with the highly favourable notices taken of the work by professional as well as other critics, and, I may be permitted to add, the very flattering encomiums which have been pronounced upon it by so many who, from their position, are the most competent to form an opinion on its merits, cannot fail to afford proofs, the most satisfactory to the Public, and, at the same time, the most gratifying to the Author, that, in the production of these volumes, upon a subject of such stirring national interest, neither the expectations of the former have been altogether disappointed, nor the labours of the latter bestowed in vain.

The present edition contains corrections on one or two points of trivial importance, to which my attention has been directed, and I shall be happy to receive further information from surviving eye-witnesses who may discover any instances in which the facts related appear either inaccurately or insufficiently explained.

W. SIBORNE.

August 23rd, 1844.

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