British Correspondence #1
This file contains typeset copies of twenty-four letters and accounts by officers and men who served with the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, which have been transcribed from the original handwritten manuscripts.
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The letters provide a highly detailed description of the Waterloo campaign and the defence of Hougoumont on Sunday the 18th June 1815. The file contains letters by Edward Bowater, Sir John Byng, Matthew Clay, Charles Dashwood, William Drummond, Francis Hepburn, Francis Home, Douglas Mercer, Henry Rooke, George Standen and Thomas Wedgwood, all of which are available separately, as well as letters written by Andrew Cochrane and Berkeley Drummond, and entries from the journal of Charles Lake. In his account, circa 1854, Matthew Clay wrote: 'After this, we being posted for the defense of a Breach in the wall upstairs above the Gate way, the shattered fragments of the Breach being mixed with the Breathless Bodies of our Brave Comrades who were cut down while defending their post.' In addition the file also contains extensive genealogical information and military service records for every officer on the establishment. |
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Please note that the file does not contain images of the original documents, as the copyright and ownership of these items is retained by the source. |
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