[719] Kennedy, p. 127.
[720] Halkett’s brigade was on the main line, nearly half of a mile west of the pike.
[721] Kempt’s brigade was on the east side of the Brussels pike; its right rested on it.
[722] It is almost exactly a mile and a half from the point of intersection of the Brussels turnpike with the Wavre road to the church in Planchenoit.
[723] See Napoléon à Waterloo, pp. 313, 318.
[724] The principal question as to this is in regard to the corps of Reille, a part of which, certainly, might have been more usefully employed in sustaining the cavalry attacks than in fighting in the wood of Hougomont, or on the Nivelles road on the west side of Hougomont. See Heymès’ statement in Doc. Inéd., pp. 17, 18.
[725] Charras, vol. 1, p. 316.
[726] Ib., p. 317.
[727] Ib., p. 321, n.; correcting the statement on p. 318, which speaks of only one battalion of grenadiers being on the road to the Maison du Roi.
[728] Charras, vol. 1, p. 321.