V.

Vandamme, Count, commander 3d French corps, known as a hard fighter, 18; delayed in the advance on the 15th, 47; at Ligny, 153, 154, 157-159; delayed in the march with Grouchy to Gembloux, 211, 252; his troops entangled in attempt to carry bridges at Wavre, 264, 265.

Vandeleur, Major-General Sir John, commander British light cavalry brigade, 35; his position at Waterloo, 299; brought to the centre with Vivian’s brigade at a critical time, 314; in the final charge, 325.

Van Löben Sels, E., _Précis de la Campagne de 1815 dans les Pays-Bas_, cited, 49, 76, 77, 92, 101, 102, 112, 279, 280, 284, 291, 310, 312, 317.

Vaudoncourt, General Guillaume de, _Histoire des Campagnes de 1814 et 1815 en France_, cited, 59, 289, 291.

Vivian, Major-General Sir Hussey, commander British light cavalry brigade, 35; his position at Waterloo, 299; brought into action at a critical moment, 314; in the final charge, 325.

W.

Walhain, where Grouchy heard the cannon of Waterloo, 255, 256, 259, 286-288.

Waterloo, the field of, 296; surveyed by English engineers before the opening of the campaign, 296. (See BATTLE OF.)

_Waterloo Letters_, cited, 83, 112, 233, 299, 300, 310, 312, 319, 321, 322, 323, 324, 332, 333, 334, 335.

Wavre, regarded by Napoleon as the proper point of concentration for the Prussian army, 98; the Prussian rendezvous after battle of Ligny, 233. (See BATTLE OF.)

Weather, 198, 211, 216, 289, 291, 292, 348.

Wellington, Duke of, headquarters at Brussels, 3, 74; his qualifications as a commander, 40, 41; his army, 34-40, 43, 294, 302; anticipates French advance by way of Mons, 74-77; his understanding with Blücher, 70 _et seq._, 91, 346; delays advance upon Quatre Bras, 77-115, 346-347; at Quatre Bras on the 16th, 106, 109; his conference with Blücher at Brye, 108, 144-146, 150; disapproves of Blücher’s position at Ligny, 155, n. [353]; in the battle of Quatre Bras, 178, 179, 183-185, 187, 188; retreats from Quatre Bras, 214, 233, 297; learns of Prussian defeat at Ligny, 233; did not receive assurance of support from Blücher until the morning of the 18th, 234, 238, 347; his ride to Wavre to consult with Blücher, 238 _et seq._, 347; his preparations for the battle of Waterloo, 294-297; occupies Hougomont, 297; his command at Waterloo, 297-300; fortifies La Haye Sainte, 301; his justification in accepting battle based upon assurance of support from Blücher, 294, 295, 302, 327; his efforts to restore his shattered line, 310, 312, 314, 318; his imminent peril, 314; repulses charge of the Imperial Guard, 318-325, 332-336; final advance of his whole line, 325, 340, 341; his retention of 18,000 men at Hal and Tubize, 339; contrasted with Ney, 338, 339.

Y.

Yonge, C. D., _Life of Wellington_, cited, 296.

Young, Rev. Julian Charles, _A Memoir of Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian_ cited, 239-241.

Z.

Zieten, General von, commander 1st Prussian corps, 32; headquarters at Charleroi, 33; resists French advance on the 15th, 47, 70, 77; at Ligny, 143, 151; falls back toward Wavre, 159, 226, 232; delay in movement on the 18th, 262; arrival of his corps at Waterloo, 324; his probable course indicated if Grouchy had detained Bülow and Pirch I., 328; his intervention not anticipated, 336; his appearance and decisive attack upon the right flank of French army assured the allied victory, 340, 341.

[Illustration: PART OF BELGIUM

from a tracing of a portion of Sheet XIII of the Comte de Ferraris’

“CARTE CHOROGRAPHIQUE DES PAYS-BAS AUTRICHIENS”

made by Edward A. Reeves, Assistant Map Curator, R.G.S. London, 1889.

Retraced, omitting the features immaterial to the Campaign of 1815, by Wm. H. Munroe, Boston, 1892.

GEO. H. WALKER & CO. LITH. BOSTON.]

[Illustration: PLAN OF THE FIELD

OF

WATERLOO

1815

Compiled from the

Carte Topographique de la Belgique

PUBLISHED IN 1882

and from Craän’s Plan of the Battle of Waterloo

PUBLISHED AT BRUSSELS IN 1817

The positions of the troops are taken from Map No. 1 in Siborne’s Waterloo Letters.

Map No. 13. The Field of Waterloo at 11.15 A.M. June 18, 1815.

GEO. H. WALKER & CO. LITH. BOSTON.]

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Transcriber’s note:

The spelling, hyphenation, punctuation and accentuation are as the original, except for apparent typographical errors which have been corrected. Some unpaired double quotation marks could not be corrected with confidence and were left as in the original.