[17] See anecdote, Appendix, [No. VI.]
[18] Lord Uxbridge was created Marquis of Anglesey, for his distinguished conduct on the field of Waterloo.
[19] See [Outline map of the Waterloo campaign].
[20] See Gurwood, Dispatches, vol. XII, page 129.
[21] The cannon-ball entered the west end of the large building still in existence; consequently must have passed through four, if not five walls, before it came out at the east end looking into the garden, or park.
[22] Sergeant-major Cotton, the author of this “Voice from Waterloo,” also lies buried in the same garden, not far from captain Blackman’s grave. He died at Mont-St.-Jean, the 24th June, 1849. (Editor.)
[23] En potence, is a military phrase which expresses a bending or throwing back of either flank or wing of an army.
[24] Now the Rifle brigade.
[25] Since called Grenadier guards, on account of their gallant conduct when opposed to the Imperial grenadiers of France, at the close of the day of Waterloo.
[26] Now Major-General Taylor and deputy governor of Sandhurst college.