In his detailed letter of the 25th May 1841, Elias van Balveren recalled the situation at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 16th June 1815 at Les Quatre Bras when the regiment finally arrived: 'In our immediate vicinity no hostilities took place. For this reason the regiment was ordered to dismount and to feed the horses with oats. This took place after having advanced in closed column to a position in front of one of the houses at Quatre Bras; the horses had barely been fed when the order arrived to mount. The removal of the haversacks and the mounting of the horses took place without delay, but this had not been fully completed when another order came to march off in columns by squadrons and to form the column in battle order to the left (in front of the enemy, who was upon the opposite heights). Immediately after this a charge was ordered upon the French troops, among which were the Lanciers Rouges of the Garde Impériale.' The entire contents of this file forms part of the on-line archive. 

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