[521] Gneisenau, vol. 4, p. 386.
[522] Ollech, p. 156; Gneisenau, vol. 4, p. 385.
[523] Müffling: Passages, p. 212.
[524] Ante, p. 106.
[525] Ante, p. 144.
[526] He was exactly seventy-two years and six months old on the day of the battle of Ligny.
[527] Ollech, p. 157.
[528] Siborne, vol. 1, p. 241, n.
[529] Stanhope, p. 110.
[530] Maurice, p. 355: July, 1890. Colonel Maurice is inclined to believe that the above incident “must have taken place in Wavre, after the receipt of Wellington’s offer to remain and fight at Waterloo, if Blücher would join him with one or two corps.” This is certainly very possible. The incident reported in Stanhope’s work, however, is stated to have occurred the night after the battle, which, as we know from the Prussian historians, Blücher spent at Mellery. Ollech, p. 157. Very possibly there may have been a second discussion at Wavre on the 17th.