[321] Ollech, p. 125.
[322] Müffling: Passages, 230, 231, 237.
[323] Charras, vol. 1, pp. 150, 151, and note. Damitz, p. 92. Gneisenau, vol. 4, p. 375. Charras states in the note cited above that Clausewitz “says that it was the promise of help from Wellington that decided Blücher to receive battle,”—but we have not been able to find the passage. He also says that Siborne substantially follows Damitz in this matter; but we can not find that Siborne represents Wellington as making any such promise. In his official report of the battle Blücher does not claim that such a promise was given. Jones, pp. 320, 321.
[324] Müffling: Passages, pp. 233-237.
[325] Ollech, p. 127, note.
[326] Ib., p. 127.
[327] Ollech (p. 142) quotes Gneisenau as writing on the 17th: “We received from the Duke of Wellington the written promise that if the enemy should attack us, he would attack them in the rear.” There is no such promise in Wellington’s letter to Blücher.
[328] La Tour D’Auvergne, p. 109, entirely disbelieves this assertion.
[329] Gneisenau, p. 372.
[330] Müffling: Passages, p. 234.