1st Edition

Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

By Christopher Summerville Copyright 2007
    488 Pages
    by Routledge

    488 Pages
    by Routledge

    Everyone knows about the Battle of Waterloo – or do they?

    This book presents the battle as never before: through the personal stories of over 150 people present at the battle or its immediate aftermath. A reference book, a biographical dictionary, and a myth-busting expose, Who was Who at Waterloo is an indispensable guide to history’s most famous battle.

    Arranged in alphabetical order, and with entries highlighted throughout the text like links in a website, the book boasts a colourful cast of soldiers, politicians, peasants, surgeons, artists, novelists, poets, scientists, entrepreneurs, and more. It provides many sorties into nineteenth century culture, politics, medicine and science. It also provides a thorough look at the sources, identifying myths, irregularities and cover-ups. The book demonstrates how little we can really know about Waterloo. And yet it also demonstrates just how much can be said about the battle’s participants.

    A

    Adam, Major General Sir Frederick William

    Alava, Miguel Ricardo de

    Allix de Vaux, General Jacques-Alexandre-François, baron

    Alten, Lieutenant General Sir Charles von

    Anton, Sergeant James

    Arentschildt, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick, Baron von

     

    B

    Bachelu, General Gilbert Désirée Joseph

    Bailly de Monthion, General François Gédéon

    Baring, Major George

    Barker, Henry Aston

    Bell, Sir Charles

    Bijlandt, Major General Willem Frederik van

    Blücher, Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von

    Bolton, Captain Samuel

    Bourmont, General Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisnes, Count

    Brack, Captain Prosper Fortuné, de

    Brewer, Joseph

    Brô, ColonelLouis

    Brunswick, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of

    Bull, Major Robert

    Bülow, General Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von

    Burney (married name d’Arblay), Frances or ‘Fanny’

    Butterworth, John

    C

    Cambronne, General Pierre Jacques

    Campbell, Lieutenant Robert Preston

    Capel, Caroline

    Chassé, Lieutenant General David Hendrik, Baron

    Chastel, General Louis Pierre Aimé, Baron

    Clark, Captain Alexander Kennedy

    Clay, Private Matthew

    Coignet, Captain Jean-Roch

    Colbert-Chabanais, GeneralEdouard de

    Cole, General Sir Galbraith Lowry

    Colville, General Sir Charles

    Constant de Rebecque, Jean Victor

    Cooke, Major GeneralSir George

    Cotton, Edward

    Crawford, Donald

    Creevey, Thomas

     

    D

    Decoster, Jean

    De Lancey, Lady Magdalen

    De Lancey, Sir William Howe

    Delort, GeneralJacques Antoine

    D’Erlon, General Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Count

    Detmers, Colonel H.

    D’Hoogvoorst, Baron Joseph van der Linden

    Domon, General Jean Simon

    Dörnberg, Major General Sir Wilhelm Kaspar Ferdinand von

    Drouot, GeneralAntoine, Count

    Duhesme, General Philibert Guillaume, Count

    Dupuis, Madame Thérèse

    Dupuy, Major Victor

    Durutte, General Pierre François

    E

    Eaton (née Waldie), Charlotte Anne

    Evans, Tom

    Ewart, Sergeant Charles

    Exelmans, General Rémy Joseph Isidore

    F

    Ferrior, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel

    Fitzroy Somerset, Colonel James Henry

    Fleury de Chamboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard

    Fouler, General Albert Emmanuel

    Foy, General Maximilien Sebastien

    Fraser, Sergeant Ralph

    Frazer, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Augustus Simon

    Fremantle, LieutenantColonel John

    Friant, General Louis, Count

    G

    Gérard, General Maurice Etienne

    Gneisenau, August Wilhelm Anton, Count von

    Gordon, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Alexander

    Graeme, Lieutenant George Drummond

    Graham, Corporal

    Gronow, Rees Howell

    Grouchy, Marshal Emmanuel, Marquis de

    Guyot, General Charles, Claude-Etienne, Count

    H

    Halkett, Major General Sir Colin

    Halkett, Colonel Hew, Baron von

    Hamilton, Lieutenant Colonel James Inglis

    Hill, General Rowland

    Hitchens, Richard

    Hunt, Philip

    J

    Jacquinot, Charles Claude, Baron

    Jardin, père or aîné

    Jérôme, Prince

    Jerzmanowski, Lieutenant Colonel Jan Pawel, Baron

    Jolyet, Major Jean-Baptiste

    K

    Keller, Major von

    Kelly, Captain Edward

    Kempt, Major General Sir James

    Kennedy, Ensign James Grant

    Kincaid, Lieutenant John

    L

    Labédoyère, General Charles-Angélique-François-Huchet, Count

    Larrey, Dominique-Jean, Baron

    Lawrence, Sergeant William

    Leach, Captain Jonathan

    Leeke, Ensign William

    Lefebvre-Desnouëttes, General Charles, Count

    Lobau, General Georges Mouton, Count

    M

    Macdonell, Lieutenant Colonel Sir James

    MacKay, Piper Kenneth

    Maitland, Major General Peregrine

    Marbot, Colonel Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcellin, Baron de

    Marshall, Sergeant Major Matthew

    Mercer, Captain Alexander Cavalié

    Merlen, Major General J.B., van

    Milhaud, General Edouard-Jean-Baptiste, Count

    Morris, Thomas

    Müffling, General Philipp Friedrich Carl Ferdinand, Baron von

    Muter, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph

    N

    Napoleon I

    Ney, Marshal Michel, Duke of Elchingen, prince of Moskova

     

    O

    Ompteda, Colonel Christian Frederick William von, Baron

    Orange, William Frederick George, Prince of

    P

    Percy, Major Henry

    Perponcher-Sedlnitzky, Lieutenant General Henri-Georges, Baron

    Petre, Lieutenant Henry William

    Picton, Lieutenant General Sir Thomas

    Pirch, Major General Georg Dubislaw Ludwig

    Piré-Hippolyte, General Marie-Guillaume, Count

    Ponsonby, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick Cavendish

    Ponsonby, Major General Sir William

    Pozzo di Borgo, General Carlo Andrea, Count

    Q

    Quiot du Passage, General Joachim, baron

    R

    Reille, General Honoré-Charles-Michel-Joseph, Count

    Richmond, General Charles Lennox, fourth Duke of

    S

    Saint-Denis, Louis Etienne

    Saltoun, Alexander George Fraser, Lord

    Sandham, Captain Charles F.

    Scott, Sir Walter

    Seymour, Captain Horace Beauchamp

    Shaw, Corporal John

    Simmons, Lieutenant George

    Smith, Captain Sir Henry George Wakelyn

    Smith, Admiral Sir William Sidney

    Somerset, Major General Lord (Robert) Edward Henry

    Soult, Marshal (‘Nicolas’) Jean-de-Dieu

    Styles, Corporal Francis

    T

    Thielemann, General Johann Adolf, Baron von

    Thornton, James

    ‘T.S.’

    Turner, Joseph Mallord William

    U

    Uchelen, Lieutenant van

    Uxbridge, Henry William Paget, second Earl of

    V

    Vandamme, General Dominique-Joseph-René, Count

    Vandeleur, Major General Sir John Ormsby

    Vivian, Major General Sir Richard Hussey

    W

    Waterloo, Frederica M’Mullen

    Weir, Sergeant John

    Wellington, Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of

    Wheatley, Lieutenant Edmund

    Whinyates, Captain Edward Charles

    Woodford, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander George

    Z

    Ziethen, Lieutenant General Hans Ernst Karl, Count von

     

    Appendix I Chronology of major political events

    Appendix II   Chronology of the Waterloo campaign

    Appendix III   Order of battle: Blucher’s Army of the North

    Appendix IV Order of battle: Wellington’s Army of the Low Countries

    Appendix VI: British Waterloo regiments: strengths and losses

    Appendix VII:  The British purchase system

    Appendix VIII: Wellington’s Waterloo Dispatch to Earl Bathurst

    Appendix IX The Battles of Waterloo and Quatre-Bras, as reported by The Times

     

    Bibliography

    Index

    Biography

    Christopher Summerville