[701] Doc. Inéd., XIX, pp. 53, 54; App. C, xxxii; post, p. 388.
[702] We shall not attempt to give a complete tactical description of the battle of Waterloo. The narratives of Siborne, Charras, Hooper, La Tour d’Auvergne, and others give all the facts. With the exception of two or three points, their accounts do not differ materially.
[703] The following extract from a letter by Baron Müffling written on June 24, 1815, is directly in point here:—
“Before we arrived there I said to the Duke, ‘If only there were an apparently weak point in the right flank of your position, so that Bonaparte might assail it right furiously, and neglect his own right wing to such an extent that he should fail to discover the march of the Prussians!’
“And see! when we arrived there, there lay the advanced post of Hougomont, upon which he (B.) indeed fell.” Militär Wochenblatt, Nov. 14, 1891.
[704] La Tour d’Auvergne, p. 266; Charras, vol. 1, p. 281.
[705] Charras, vol. 2, p. 18.
[706] Charras, vol. 1, p. 288, and note 2.
[707] Charras, vol. 1, p. 288; La Tour d’Auvergne, p. 274. D’Erlon in his autobiography throws no light on the matter; Drouet, p. 97.
[708] Nowhere better, perhaps, than in Erckmann-Chatrian’s “Waterloo.”