The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History / Third Edition

by John Codman Ropes

[301] This seems to imply that the Emperor did not propose to carry the Guard to Gembloux.

[302] See ante, p. 123.

[303] Corresp., vol. 28, p. 336; App. C, xxiv; post, pp. 382, 383.

[304] Ollech, pp. 112, 113: D’Auvergne, pp. 103, 104: Charras, vol. 1, pp. 143, 144.

[305] “Rendez-vous avec cette aile droite à Sombreffe.”

[306] It is, however, given in Du Casse’s Vandamme, vol. 2, p. 562.

[307] Jomini, pp. 129, 130.

[308] Charras, vol. 1, pp. 138, 145, 182.

[309] Siborne, vol. 1, p. 85.

[310] The Duke of Wellington, however, thought the inactivity of Napoleon on the morning of the 16th was necessitated by the long marches of the past few days. Ellesmere, pp. 296, 297. So, Clausewitz, ch. 25, p. 53.