WATERLOO: ORIGINAL ACCOUNTS

The Captain W. Siborne Collection and Related Materials from the British Library, London

Contents of Reels

REEL 1

King’s Maps 31885-1 Map of Waterloo

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Papers relating to the battle of Waterloo; from the collection of William Mudford, author of the Historical account of the Battle of Waterloo, 1817, including a computation of the British and allied forces under Wellington, previous to the battle; in the Duke's handwriting.

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Copies of correspondence and papers, principally of an official character, of Sir Hudson Lowe, Quartermaster-General to the British army in the Low Countries, and in separate command at Genoa and Marseilles, with General Müffling, Earl Bathurst, Secretary for War, Sir Henry Bunbury, Under-Secretary, and others; Jan.-July, 1815, and with Admiral Sir George Cockburn, relating to the custody of Napoleon.

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Original correspondence of Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, official and private, Jan. 1814-Dec. 1815.

REEL 2

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Accounts of holiday tours of Dr Samuel Butler in France and the Netherlands, including a visit to the field of Waterloo, July, 1816.

REEL 3

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Waterloo correspondence: The Captain William Siborne collection of survivors’ accounts. Vol I.

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Waterloo correspondence: The Captain William Siborne collection of survivors’ accounts. Vol II.

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Waterloo correspondence: The Captain William Siborne collection of survivors’ accounts. Vol III.

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Waterloo correspondence: The Captain William Siborne collection of survivors’ accounts. Vol IV.

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Waterloo correspondence: The Captain William Siborne collection of survivors’ accounts. Vol V.

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Waterloo correspondence: The Captain William Siborne collection of survivors’ accounts. Vol VI.

REEL 8

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f285 only - Plan of battle from the Peel Papers.

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f49 only - Account of the battle from the Heytesbury Papers.

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Memoirs of the early life of John Elliott, Lieutenant, Royal Navy, including an account of his service as a midshipman on the second voyage of Captain James Cook in HMS Resolution, 1772-1775. At the end (ff100-2) are drawings by John Elliott of the field of the Battle of Waterloo, in which his son took part.

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ff264-7 only - Account of the death of Alexander Gordon following injuries sustained at the Battle of Waterloo, from the Aberdeen Papers.

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Aberdeen Papers: Correspondence with his brother, Lt.-Col. the Hon. Sir Alexander Gordon, KCB 1815, who served in the Peninsula and Belgium as aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington until mortally wounded at Waterloo. ff266-70.

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ff86-87 only - Letter from Captain Joseph Logan, 2nd Battalion, 95th Regiment (now the Rifle Brigade), to William Sylvester, describing the Battle of Waterloo; 10 July 1815.

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Miscellaneous letters of statesmen including letters of the Duke of Wellington, ff214-231.

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The Waterloo despatch - autograph draft by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, of his despatch addressed to Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for War, announcing and describing the Allies' decisive victory over Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo; 19 June 1815.

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