The reports provide a highly detailed description of the Waterloo campaign, and the part played by the troops of the Brunswick Corps. In his report of the 19th June 1815, Elias Olfermann recalled the destructive fire the Allied squares had to endure on Sunday 18th June: ‘At this time the Duke of Wellington sheltered in the squares of our corps. The squares were repeatedly attacked, but each attack suffered the same fate: they were forced to turn back with heavy losses each time. Soon after, the Duke of Wellington ordered me to advance with three battalions in square and to cross the height. This movement was executed with the utmost calm, although everybody supposed that a violent infantry and canister fire would await us on the other side of the height. This supposition was only too true. Hardly had we crossed the said height when whole ranks within the battalions were shot down in a very short period of time.’

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