The extraordinary letter provides a drmatic and highly detailed description of the Waterloo campaign. In his letter dated the 2nd July 1815, Wilhelm Schütte recalled the situation on the 16th June 1815: ‘Soon we arrived at Quatre Bras where we were deployed in a position on a small height. The cannonade was tremendous, and it made me feel that the heavens were falling down upon us. However, shortly thereafter I was laughing at myself, because I kept turning my head with every shell, which you can recognise by the whistling noise as they pass your eyes. I remained behind the batteries until the major told me to install my workbench in one of the houses nearby, where he would bring the wounded. It was there I met Vorlop, Krüger, Schmidt and Meineken. They were already in the midst of their work, as they had arrived at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.’ It should be noted that the entire contents of this file are also available within the new on-line archive.

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