In his letter of the 16th November 1824, Wilhelm von Tschirschnitz recalled the fighting on the 16th June 1815: ‘Immediately behind this place (from the direction we had arrived) the battalion was subjected to a heavy cannonade, but which caused only minor casualties. Half a company continued to march on the road in excellent order towards the village of Sart à Mavelines, and half way there it was halted. The Lüneburg and the Grubenhagen battalions were already engaged with the enemy Tirailleurs. We wheeled to the right and were ordered to take shelter in the ditches beside the highroad, as some of the soldiers had been hit on their knapsacks by the enemy canister fire. At 6 o’clock Lieutenant-General von Alten approached our battalion and granted Lieutenant-Colonel von Langrehr’s request to send forward some sharpshooters.’ It should be noted that the entire contents of this file are also available within the new on-line archive.

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