[89] This interesting relic still exists.
[92] Rose’s “Napoleon,” vol. ii. p. 487-8.
[94] Comte Charles van der Burch is the present owner of Hougoumont.
[97] “Some of this brigade, particularly the 5th Military, had behaved with great gallantry on the 16th, at Quatre Bras.”--Cotton’s, “A Voice from Waterloo,” p. 56.
[98] General Gascoigne in the House of Commons, the 29th June 1815.
[99] “Some one asked whether the French Cuirassiers had not come up very well at Waterloo? ‘Yes,’ he (Wellington) said, ‘and they went down very well too.’”--Croker, vol. i. p. 330.
[100] _I.e._ the guns were not removed, the artillerymen working them till the last moment and then seeking refuge in the nearest square, to resume their former position when the enemy began to retire.
[101] “Cambridge Modern History,” vol. ix. p. 639.
[102] See the author’s “Story of Napoleon,” p. 135.
[103] Not at Wimbledon, as Mr Asquith said in a speech at the Guildhall in 1911.
[105] The point is somewhat obscure owing to conflicting evidence.--See “The Boyhood of a Great King,” by A. M. Broadley, pp. 99-100.
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