[22] History of the Restoration, vol. ii, p. 377, 388.
[23] Despatches, vol. viii, p. 168.
[24] O’Meara, vol. i, p. 464.
[25] Brialmont’s Wellington, vol. ii, p. 440.
[26] Gourgaud’s Waterloo, p. 96.
[27] The first French attack was repulsed about two o’clock: but Bonaparte renewed it five or six times, until about seven o’clock in the evening.—Austrian Account.
[28] Hist. Memoir, book ix, p. 143.
[29] Lamartine, b. xxv, § 34.
[30] Gourgaud’s Campaign of Waterloo, p. 97.
[31] [Page 151]. This attack on the centre was made at one o’clock, and La Haye Sainte was not evacuated by the English till six in the evening. Of what occurred in the five hours which intervened the French accounts are ominously silent.