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THE RUINS of HOUGOUMONT Volume II: Observations & Guidebooks THE RUINS OF HOUGOUMONT Volume II: Observations & Guidebooks Peter Inskip+Peter Jenkins Architects / 19-23 White Lion Street, London N19 PD December 2013, issue Rev C. But before we enter upon this terrible subject, let us for a moment attend more minutely to the positions chosen by the contending armies. Nothing that concerns Waterloo should be lost. Every spot should be dear to Britain, because even clod of earth is wet with the blood of her bravest sons. Every footstep attests her prowess, every object recalls to the memory of the beholder her glory– her security and their fame. James McQueen’s published Narative1 I wish it might be allowed to remain untouched, that the ruins themselves might remain as the best monument of the brave men who are buried underneath them. Robert Southey, on his second visit to the field of battle, 21 October 1815 2 CONTENTS Index of descriptions 1 Routes through the Ground 9 Eyewitness Accounts 13 Observations & Guidebooks 97 Endnotes 277 INDEX Eyewitness Accounts July 3 Lieutenant Colonel The Honourable James Hamilton 1815 June 18 Lieutenant Colonel The Honourable James Hamilton Stanhope writing from Le Bourget, in front of Montmartre Stanhope writes in his diary. writes to Lady Spencer. June 19 Colonel Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar writes to his Oct 25 Liutenant General Perponcher, reports of the 2nd father. Netherland Division, 15 to 19 June written from Headquarters at St Leu [la Foret] Taverny. June 20 A report made by Lieutenant General K. Von Alten from Brussels on the action of the 3rd Division of Lieutenant 1824 Nov 9 A extract from Lieutenant-Colonel Frederich von der General Baron Karl von Alten. Schulenberg’s report from Verden on the activity of the Landwehr Battalion Bremervörde of the 3rd Hanoverian An extract of a report, written from Le Rouelx, on the Brigade of Colonel Halkett, part of General Clinton’s activity of the 5th Division of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Division. Picton 5th Hanoverian Brigade of Colonel Vincke. Nov 23 An extract from Lieutenant Colonel G. von Muller report, June 23 Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton of the Second written from Munden, on the activity of the 2nd Line division reports to General Sir Thomas Graham. Battalion, King’s German Legion. Lieutenant Colonel Sir John May, Royal Artillery, Nov 25 Captain Andrew Cleeves, Lieutenant Colonel and commanding the artillery at Waterloo responds to Mr Commander writes from Wunstorf on the activity of the Mudford. Hanoverian Horse Artillery. June 24 Major and Commander Hammerstein writes from Bivouac, Dec 1 The activity of Major A Sympher’s 2nd Troop is reported Le Cateau, an early account of the Hanoverian Landwehr from Stade by Lieutenant Colonel H. J. Kuhlmann. Battalion Salzgitter. Dec 4 An extract from Captain C. Von Scriba’s report, written June Mr Mudford writes to various participants in the battle to from Stade, recording the activity of the Bremen Light or inform his History, published 1817. Lieutenant Colonel Field Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel von Langrehr. Francis Home, 2nd Battalion 3rd Foot Guards replies. 1825 Jan 3 Major L. Von Dreves report on the Osnabrück Landwehr, June Colonel Sir George Wood, commanding the artillery part of the 2nd Battalion, Duke of York Regiment. responds to Mr Mudford. [1834] Mar 10 Ensign Henry Gooch writes from Bureton of his duty at Hougoumont. 1 Nov 9 Captain Douglas Mercer writes from Stoke by Nayland, Jan 19 Lord Saltoun writes from London to Captain William Colchester. Siborne. Nov 14 Lord Saltoun writes from Dunne, describing the role of the [1840] George Thomas, Earl of Albemarle recalls the evening after 2st Foot Guards, 2nd & 3rd Battalions the battle. Dec 10 Lieutentant William Lovelace Walton Captain of the [1843] Mar 16 Ensign Henry Montagu, later Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Coldstream Guards Guards. Dec 27 Major Thomas Dalmer, to First Lieutenant John Enoch 1846 Ludwig von Wissel Glorious Feats (Hanover, 1846): 4th Line Battalion, KGL, an account of Rifleman Henry Rohlfs. 1835 Feb 14 Major Philip Mejer Lauenburg, 4th Line Battalion King’s German Legion 1847 Feb The Duke of Wellington’s recollections recorded at Walmer Castle. Feb 15 Lieutentant and Adjutant Adolphus Hess, Hanover [1855, before] A Nassau Soldier's Remembrances of the Waterloo Campaign, 2 Mar Captain Albertus Cordemann Hanover fragments from memoirs of Private Johann Peter Leonhard. Mar 12 Ensign Thomas Wedgwood writes from Mar Hall [undated] General Hugh Halkett’s account of the Hanoverian troops. Mar 12 Capt Baron Frederick Geoben, King’s German Legion ‘Report on the Corps of Troops of his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick fro m the 15th to and including the 18th Mar 25 Lieutenant Charles Parker Ellis. June of 1815 with two plans’ Mar 4 March Captain Frederick Purgold, Luneburg Pflung-Harttung’s letter describing the activity of the 1836 Jan Major General August von Kruse reporting to the Hanoverians. Honourable L Benne Pflung-Harttung’s letter describing the activity of part of 1836 Aug 6 Lietenant Edward B. Fairfield writes from Mount Eagal, the Royal Hanoverian Troops and the King’s German Castle Island, Ireland. Legion. 1838 Jan 4 Captain William Siborne writes from Dublin to Lord Colonel Sattler reports for the 1st Battalion, 2nd Nassau Saltoun to discuss the detail of the battle at Hougomont, Regiment. informing the making of his model. 2 Captain Moritz Büsgen reports for the 1st Battalion of the Early Publications 2nd Ducal Regiment. 1816 James McQueen’s A narrative of the political and military Pflugk-Harttung’s letter to Colonel Hugh Halkett to Major events, of 1815. von Hammerstien John Booth publishes an early account of the battle with a description of the monuments of the battlefield. 1859 2st King’s German Legion Brigade of Colonel du Plat 3rd Line Battalion, KGL: Lieutanant Henry Dehnel, A retrospective of my Military Career in the years from 1805 to 1849, (Hanover 1859). 1864 Ensign Ferdinand von Uslar-Gleichen, part of Reminiscences of German Officers in British Service from the Wars 1805 to 1816 (Hanover, 1864). 1870 General Cavalié Mercer, the commander of the 9th Brigade Royal Artillery publishes his History. 3 Observations & Guidebooks 1815 June 16+ Thomas Creevey writes form Brussels. mid-Aug Nearly seven weeks after to battle the Misses Capel were taken to view the Field of Waterloo. Mrs. Elizabeth Ord, stepdaughter to Thomas Creevey, writes in her diary. Oct 3 Robert Southey visits the battlefield for the first time. June Lady Caroline Lamb reports to Lady Melbourne soon after Oct 21 Robert Southey with [Joseph] Nash revisit the battlefield the battle. [Autum] James Simpson writes his account of the battle as part of a July 2 Charles Percy writes to his sister Susan from Peronne. tour. July 15 Charles Pascoe Grenfell writing to his father, Pascoe Aug 20 Sir Samuel Romney passes the battlefield en route to Liege Grenfell. and notes the devastation. July 27 John Wilson Croker, tours the field with the Duke of Sept 18 Lady Francis Shelley Wellington. Oct 20 Charles Cuthbert Southey writes to John May from Aug Sir David Wilkie visits the battlefied and in December Brussels. writes to Sir George Beaumont: 1816 James MITCHELL. Tour Through Belgium, Holland, Along the Aug 6 Henry Crabb Robinson begins a tour and includes the field Rhine, and through the North of France, in the summer of 1816 at Waterloo. In 1850 he revisits and edits his journal. Guidebook: Edinburgh Horticultural Society made a tour of Aug 9 John Scott, accompanying Sir Walter Scott surveys the Northern Europe and visits the battleground. A battlefield. Horticultural Tour is published. John Scott publishes his first account of visiting the April Sir John Burgoyne returns to the battlefield and writes his battlefield with his brother Sir Walter, Paris Revisited in impressions. 1815, by way of Brussels (1816). May 1+ Lord Byron arrives at Brussels, tours the field of battle and Aug 10 Sir Walter Scott writes to the Duke of Baccleugh of his later writes to John Cam Hobhouse. journey and tour of the battlefield. May 5 Dr John William Polidori, physician and travelling companion of Lord Byron writes in his diary. 4 May 9 Sir Walter Scott writes to Robert Southey of his physical Nov The Gentleman’s Magazing, reprinted in The Atheneum, or response to seeing the battlefield. Spirit of the English Magazines. May 25 Fox Talbot visits the battlefield in May, six months later, 1819 June 18 Frederica Louisa Murray records her reflections of a visit to writes to W. G. Trevelyan of his botanical observations. Waterloo in her diary. 1816 June 17+ Edward Stanley visits Waterloo as part of continental tour, 1820 July 17 Dorothy Wordsworth records her visit with her husband producing a sketchbook and recording Hougoumont. William as part of a continental tour. July 9 Samuel Butler visit Brussels and tours the Waterloo 1822 Christopher Kelly: History of the French Revolution (1822). battleground. The description seems to be derived from Charlotte Eaton’s Narative. July 13 Hugh William Williams with George Basevi walk the field of Waterloo, recording their visit by sketches. Willis writes 1828 [Jan 27] William Wordsworth travels through the north of Europe to William Douglas of their visit. with and returns to visit the field of battle with Thomas Coleridge. July 25 Charlotte Malkin’s journal of a tour of the continent including Belgium and the site of the Battle of Waterloo, Aug 13 Mortimer & Lucy Thoyrs keep a diary of their tour across Cologne, Frankfurt, the Rhine, and the Netherlands; July – Europe which includes the field of battle at Waterloo. Aug. 1816. 1829 The United Services Magazine publishes a Novelette, [Summer] Pryse Lockhart Gordon publishes his Personal Memoirs.
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