[(20)] Probably a barn at the farm of Mont St Jean, about 700 yards north of the Wellington Tree.
[(21)] Doubtless the village of Mont St Jean, the village of Waterloo being two miles further north.
When Miss Waldie (afterwards Mrs Eaton—see Dictionary of National Biography, vol. lix., p. 26) went to Waterloo on the 15th July, she noticed the name of Sir William De Lancey written in chalk on the door of a cottage, where he had slept the night before the battle. (Waterloo Days, p. 125.) The [sketch] on the opposite page is reproduced from Sketches in Flanders and Holland, by Robert Hills, 1816, and shows the village of Mont St Jean, as it appeared a month after the battle. The figures in the foreground represent villagers returning from the battlefield with cuirasses, brass eagles, bullets, etc., which they had picked up.
The Village of Mont St Jean, 1815.
[(22)] See Waterloo Roll Call, p. 35, and Army List for 1815, p. 31.
[(23)] The Duke began the Waterloo despatch very early on the 19th at Waterloo, but he finished it at Brussels, that same morning.
[(24)] I.e., not only Waterloo, but Ligny, Quatre Bras, and the fighting that took place on the 15th and 17th June.
[(25)] Mr William Hay of Duns Castle. He had been in the 16th Light Dragoons in the Peninsular War (see Army List for 1811, p. 89), and had come over from England a few days before to see his old friends, and introduce his young brother, Cornet Alexander Hay, to his old regiment.