The various diary entries provide a fascinating insight into the manner in which information reached the towns and villages  within the Low Countries. Georg von Coulon also described the arrival of news of the losses the Allied troops had sustained: 'Today, a.m. unexpectedly, Lieutenant Wyhe from the 8th Line Battalion [King's German Legion] of the army arrived at his wife's for a visit which lasted several hours. He confirmed that the French army was totally beaten, but also confirmed that the Allies had suffered heavy losses. He told me that from the 8th Battalion, Captain Voigt and Westernhagen, as well as Lieutenant Mahrenholz, had been shot; and that the Lieutenant-Colonel Schröder, Capt. Rougemont, Lieut. Brinckmann, Sattler and Mohreau were wounded; that they had lost many corporals and soldiers. Furthermore, he knew that Colonel Ompteda was dead and his Major of Brigade, Goeben, was severely wounded.'  This file forms part of the new on-line archive.   

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