[185] Supp. Desp., vol. x, p. 496.
[186] Disposition of the British Army at 7 o’clock A.M., 16th June.
| 1st division | Braine le Comte | marching to Nivelles and Quatre Bras. | |||
| 2d „ | „ | marching to Nivelles. | |||
| 3d „ | Nivelles | „ to Quatre Bras. | |||
| 4th „ | Audenarde | „ to Braine le Comte. | |||
| 5th „ | beyond Waterloo | „ to Genappe. | |||
| 6th „ | Assche | „ to Genappe and Quatre Bras. | |||
| 5th Hanoverian brigade | Hal | „ to Genappe and Quatre Bras. | |||
| 4th „ | beyond Waterloo | „ to Genappe and Quatre Bras. | |||
| 2d division | army of the | at Nivelles and Quatre Bras. | |||
| 3d „ | Low Countries | ||||
| 1st division | „ | Sotteghem | marching to Enghien. | ||
| Indian brigade | |||||
Major-General Dörnberg’s brigade and Cumberland Hussars | beyond Waterloo | „ to Genappe and Quatre Bras. | |||
| Remainder of the cavalry | Braine le Comte | „ to Nivelles and Quatre Bras. | |||
| Duke of Brunswick’s Corps, | beyond Waterloo | „ to Genappe. | |||
| Nassau | „ | „ to Genappe. | |||
The above disposition written out for the information of the commander of the Forces by Colonel Sir W. De Lancey. The centre column of names indicates the places at which the troops had arrived or were moving on. The column on the right of the paper indicates the places the troops were ordered to proceed to at 7 o’clock A.M., 16th June, previous to any attack on the British.
(Signed) DeLacy Evans.
By the phrase—“the places at which the troops had arrived or were moving on”—the writer means, in all probability, the places to which the troops were, in his judgment, nearest, at 7 A.M.
[187] Waterloo Roll Call, pp. 4, 19.
[188] Maurice (June, 1890, p. 261) adopts a different construction of the statement; he thinks it means that the orders to march to the various points named were issued at seven o’clock A.M. But why should it have been thought necessary to give to the Commander of the Forces information of the hour of issuing the orders? What he would want to know would be where the various divisions probably were at a given hour, and to what points they were marching.
[189] Major Oldfield states that the Duke rode out to Quatre Bras unattended by his Quartermaster-General, De Lancey, or by the other heads of departments. Oldfield, MSS.
[190] Lady Jane Dalrymple Hamilton, in her most interesting Journal, now in the possession of her granddaughter, Lady Manvers, says: “We found him [the Duke] there [at the ball] on our arrival at 10 o’clock. * * * We remained till past two, and, when I left, the Duke was still there.”