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Title: The Waterloo Roll Call Author: Charles Dalton Release date: February 7, 2016 [eBook #51143] Most recently updated: October 22, 2024 Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51143 Credits: Produced by KD Weeks, Brian Coe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was created from images of public domain material made available by the University of Toronto Libraries (http://link.library.utoronto.ca/booksonline/).) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WATERLOO ROLL CALL *** Transcriber's Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the '_' character as _italic_. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber's note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. The bulk of this text consists of annotated tables containing names, dates, and ranks achieved of participants in the British Army at the battle of Waterloo. Most entries are accompanied by brief biographical sketches. The notes follow each table, as printed. The numbering of the notes for each table has been retained, beginning anew with '1' for each table. The footnotes to the prefatory material, and to the headings of many tables, originally appeared as an asterisk. These have been re-sequenced from A to W and appear after the paragraph where they are referenced. THE WATERLOO ROLL CALL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE WATERLOO ROLL CALL. _WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES._ BY CHARLES DALTON, F.R.G.S., AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF THE WRAYS OF GLENTWORTH," "LIFE OF GENERAL SIR EDWARD CECIL," "MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN JOHN DALTON, COMMANDANT OF TRICHINOPOLY, 1752-1753"; AND EDITOR OF "ENGLISH ARMY LISTS AND COMMISSION REGISTERS, 1661-1714," "THE BLENHEIM ROLL," ETC. ------- =Second Edition,= _REVISED AND ENLARGED_. LONDON: EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, =Government and General Publishers,= EAST HARDING STREET, E.C. 1904 [_All Rights Reserved._] [Illustration] =Dedicated= TO GEORGE TANCRED, ESQUIRE (LATE CAPTAIN SCOTS GREYS), OF WEENS, ROXBURGHSHIRE. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. ------- Time does not diminish the interest of Waterloo, for that combat of giants is indissolubly connected with Napoleon-the greatest master of the art of war the world has ever known. Since the publication of my ROLL CALL in 1890, I have received much additional information from the relatives of Waterloo officers. This has enabled me to bring out the present revised and enlarged edition. And I wish particularly to mention that many of the obituary notices of Waterloo officers given in the following pages were collected by the late Mr. J.W. O'Brien, of the British Museum Library (formerly in the ranks of the 4th Dragoon Guards), whose annotated copy of the ROLL CALL came into my possession by purchase. Mr. O'Brien's researches were not made at my instigation or wish, but having been made, and brought to my notice, I thought it advisable to secure and utilise this copy of my book containing the aforesaid MS. entries. A special feature of the Second Edition is the list of non-commissioned officers and men (given in Part III.) who served at Waterloo, and subsequently received commissions in the British army. CHARLES DALTON. _September 1st, 1904._ ------- CONTENTS. PART I. PAGE Preface to Second Edition vii Introduction to First Edition ix-xv Abbreviations xvi List of the Staff 1-8 Biographical Memoirs of the Staff 9-39 British and Hanoverian Army, as formed in Divisions and 40-44 Brigades on the 18th June, 1815 Annotated Lists of Regiments engaged at Waterloo 46-230 Medical Staff and Departmental Officers 231-235 Annotated Lists of Regiments which formed the Reserve 236-249 on 18th June, 1815 PART II. Muster Roll of the Scots Greys 250-255 PART III. Non-Commissioned Officers and Men at Waterloo who 256-266 subsequently received Commissions in the British Army PART IV. A few Waterloo Heroes 267-273 Appendix 275-278 Index 279 INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION. _Ah! Je les tiens donc, ces Anglais!_-NAPOLEON. Never since the days of Oliver Cromwell had any name caused so much fear in England as did that of Napoleon Bonaparte. From 1802 until his first downfall, in 1814, a spirit of alarm and uneasiness pervaded all classes in Great Britain, from the King and his Ministers down to the most illiterate peasant. Those who were witnesses of, and participators in, this panic have now passed away, but the national pride which our victory over Napoleon at Waterloo excited in every Briton's breast is as strong as ever, and will last till the crack of doom. In July, 1803, a little pamphlet, entitled _Important Considerations for the People of this Kingdom_, was published in London, and "sent to the officiating minister of every parish in England." This pamphlet, which bears the Royal Arms of England, was an appeal from the Government to the Nation, and a diatribe against Napoleon. Mark the closing lines of this appeal: "Shall we, who are abundantly supplied with iron and steel, powder and lead-shall we, who have a fleet superior to the maritime force of all the world, and who are able to bring two millions of fighting men into the field-shall we yield up this dear and happy land, together with all the liberties and honours, to preserve which our fathers so often dyed the land and the sea with their blood?... No, we are not so miserably fallen; we cannot, in so short a space of time, have become so detestably degenerate; we have the strength and the will to repel the hostility, to chastise the insolence of the foe. Mighty, indeed, must be our efforts, but mighty also is the need." The idea of a French invasion was slow in forcing its way into the minds of the uneducated classes in England. When they first heard of such a possibility they thought it of no more consequence than the invasion of Scotland by Charles Edward Stuart with a mere handful of Frenchmen at his back. They also thought less of the projected descent from having heard so much in 1797, and during the Rebellion in Ireland in 1798, of a French army coming to the relief of the National party in that kingdom:- "For the French are on the sea, Says the Shan Van Vaugh, And Ireland will soon be free, Say |