You will have heard of our battle of the 18th. Never did I see such a pounding match. Both were what the boxers call gluttons. Napoleon did not manœuvre at all. He just moved forward in the old style, in columns; and was driven off in the old style, in line. I had the infantry for some time in squares; and we had the French cavalry walking about us as if they had been our own. I never saw the British Infantry behave so well.
WELLINGTON.
The following will prove that our hero had no animosity towards Napoleon:—
To Sir Charles Stuart, G.C.B.
The Prussians think the Jacobins wish to give him over to me, believing that I will save his life; Blucher wishes to kill him, but I have told him that I shall remonstrate, and shall insist upon his being disposed of by common accord. I have likewise said that, as a private friend, I advise him to have nothing to do with so foul a transaction, that he and I had acted too distinguished parts in these transactions to become executioners, and that I was determined that, if the Sovereigns wished to put him to death, they should appoint an executioner, which should not be me.
WELLINGTON.
LOSS OF THE REGIMENTS AT WATERLOO.
Strength of the British Army on the 16th of June, 1815, and the loss of the different Regiments in killed, wounded, and missing, on the 16th, 17th, and 18th.
| Regiments. | Strength
exclusive
of
Officers
on the
morn of
16th. | Loss on the | No. of
Officers
killed
on the
Fields |
| 16th and 17th | 18th June |
| Officers | Non-
Coms.
and
men. | Officers | Non-
Coms.
and
men. |
| 1st Life Guards | 263 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 65 | 2 |
| 2nd Life Guards | 235 | .. | .. | 2 | 155 | 1 |
| Royal Horse Guards Blue | 254 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 98 | 1 |
| 1st Dragoon Guards | 571 | .. | .. | 11 | 246 | 7 |
| 1st Royal Dragoons | 428 | .. | .. | 14 | 196 | 5 |
| 2nd Royal D. (Scots Greys) | 442 | .. | .. | 15 | 199 | 7 |
| 6th Inniskillen | 445 | .. | .. | 7 | 217 | 2 |
| 7th Hussars | 408 | 4 | 46 | 10 | 150 | 2 |
| 10th Hussars | 452 | .. | .. | 8 | 94 | 2 |
| 11th Hussars | 438 | .. | 3 | 6 | 73 | 1 |
| 12th Hussars | 427 | .. | .. | 5 | 111 | 3 |
| 13th Hussars | 449 | .. | 1 | 10 | 108 | 1 |
| 15th Hussars | 447 | .. | .. | 11 | 79 | 3 |
| 16th Hussars | 434 | .. | .. | 6 | 32 | 2 |
| 18th Hussars | 444 | .. | 2 | 2 | 102 | .. |
| 23rd Hussars | 347 | .. | 6 | 6 | 72 | 1 |
| 1st Foot Guards, 2nd Battalion | 1066 | 8 | 285 | 11 | 153 | 4 |
| 1st Foot Guards, 3rd Battalion | 1122 | 9 | 262 | 7 | 343 | 6 |
| Coldstream Gds. 2nd Battalion | 1045 | .. | .. | 13 | 308 | 4 |
| 3rd Foot Guards, 2nd Battalion | 1063 | .. | 7 | 15 | 239 | 7 |
| 1st Royals, 3rd Battalion | 671 | 10 | 218 | 22 | 144 | 7 |
| 4th Regiment, 1st Battalion | 670 | .. | .. | 10 | 134 | 1 |
| 14th Regiment, 3rd Battalion | 630 | .. | .. | 2 | 36 | .. |
| 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers | 741 | .. | .. | 12 | 104 | 7 |
| 27th Inniskillen | 750 | .. | .. | 14 | 104 | 2 |
| 28th Regiment, 1st Battalion | 631 | 6 | 75 | 14 | 177 | 3 |
| 30th Regiment, 1st Battalion | 686 | 8 | 51 | 12 | 228 | 6 |
| 32nd Regiment, 1st Battalion | 699 | 8 | 196 | 20 | 174 | 3 |
| 33rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion | 682 | 7 | 106 | 15 | 185 | 7 |
| 40th Regiment, 1st Battalion | 862 | .. | .. | 12 | 219 | 2 |
| 42nd Highlanders, 2nd Battalion | 717 | 18 | 288 | 6 | 49 | 4 |
| 44th Regiment, 2nd Battalion | 618 | 12 | 138 | 6 | 64 | 2 |
| 51st Light Infantry | 619 | .. | .. | 2 | 42 | .. |
| 52nd Light Infantry | 1148 | .. | .. | 10 | 199 | 1 |
| 69th Regiment, 2nd Battalion | 696 | 9 | 155 | 4 | 85 | 5 |
| 71st Highlanders | 929 | .. | .. | 17 | 202 | 3 |
| 73rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion | 554 | 4 | 56 | 20 | 280 | 8 |
| 79th Highlanders | 644 | 26 | 204 | 9 | 175 | 10 |
| 92nd Highlanders | 708 | 20 | 286 | 8 | 116 | 7 |
| 95th Rifles, 1st Battalion | 482 | 6 | 64 | 12 | 156 | 4 |
| 95th Rifles, 2nd Battalion | 655 | .. | .. | 15 | 246 | 1 |
| 95th Rifles, 3rd Battalion | 202 | .. | .. | 5 | 50 | 1 |
| Royal Artillery 1st Battalion | 4972 | 3 | 28 | 33 | 476 | 10 |