The London Gazette, Thursday, June 22nd, 1815.

The Emperors Bulletin, Paris, June 21st, 1815.

The Account of Marshal Ney.

The Account of Field-Marshal Blücher.

The Despatch of William, Prince of Orange.

The Account of General Alten.

The Spanish Account of Lt.-General Don Miguel de Alava.

Wellington's Dress at Waterloo 

The 35th Foot. Colour plate by Chas. Stadden

Sesquicentennial. - By; David Johnson

British Infantry, Waterloo 1815. - By; D.S. V. Fosten

The Ensign’s Coat.

British Cavalry. Waterloo. 1815. - By; A.Griffits

The British Casualty Lists (London Gazette). - By; Lt.-Col. J. B. R Nicholson

Sangfroid Épatant d’un Milor Anglais.

Appendices from Siborne’s Waterloo.

A Short Bibliography of the Waterloo Campaign.

Reminiscence. - By; Serg. Morris, 73rd Foot

Waterloo 1965. Photographs by A. G. Clayton.

The Allied Medals for Waterloo. - By; L. C. Joslin

Photo - Painting; The Magnificent painting of the battle by Dennis Dighton is reproduced by kind permission of the Marquess af Anglesey

This is a special number – a number in which we commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the great Battle of Waterloo. In that battle the Emperor Napoleon was finally defeated by an Anglo- Allied Army commanded by the Duke of Wellington and Prussian Army under the command of Field Marshall Count Blücher. 

One man’s victory is conversely another man’s defeat, and the justifiable pride with which we recall the bravery and gallantry of our victorious countrymen should not blind us to the equal bravery and gallantry of the French Army which opposed us. Certainly the British have a temperamental hard-headed practability curiously eroded though never destroyed, by a weakness for lost causes. Then  we  have  the  curious. 

spectacle of Napoleon – referred to by his contemporaries as the tyrant of Europe – enshrined on a pedestal alongside Charles I – the Martyr King and Charles Stuart – the Young Pretender. 

It is an undoubted fact that the Napoleonic period has more devotees than any other period of military history. Over the years the legends have grown, and David Johnson vividly recaptured some of the exhilaration of the young cavalrymen in a victorious army in an age when chivalry was not quite dead. 

We have tried to make this number a quarry from which readers can dig such facts as they require – the official accounts, strengths, casualties, etc., since these are less easy to find and these we are sure will be welcome.