In his detailed letter of the 21st July 1841, Casper Morbotter recalled the fighting during the Battle of Waterloo on Sunday the 18th June 1815, and the involvement of the Netherlands cavalry from Major-General Albert Trip van Zoutelande's Brigade: 'Around half past 3 in the afternoon General Trip noticed some movements by the French Cuirassiers; he sent me to inform Lieutenant-General Collaert, the commander of our cavalry, to ask for orders. As I could not find him I returned at the gallop to report this fact, while the Cuirassiers had approached to between 500 and 600 paces, with approx. 3 squadrons. They intended to charge a square formed by two Hanoverian battalions named Bremen and Veerde [sic], which stood 200 paces in echelon in front and to our left. They started their charge in the sodden ground too early, which resulted in their horses being out of breath; they were received by a well maintained fire from the square.’

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