The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History / Third Edition

by John Codman Ropes

[281] Charras, vol. 1, pp. 204, 205.

[282] Doc. Inéd., IX, p. x31; App. C, xxii; post, p. 381.

[283] Charras (vol. 1, p. 190) says that this order differed from Soult’s previous orders in authorizing Ney to employ the cavalry of the Count of Valmy. But both Soult’s orders direct this in express terms.

[284] Doc. Inéd., XII, pp. 38, 39; App. C, xx; post, pp. 379, 380.

[285] Jones, p. 386. Charras, vol. 1, p. 215.

[286] Ante, p. 51.

[287] Ante, p. 52.

[288] Ante, pp. 67, 68.

[289] For an explanation of Chesney’s (pp. 118, 119) severe strictures, see ante, p. 51, n. 29.

[290] Doc. Inéd., Heymès, p. 6.