PART FIVE, GROUP B: WELLINGTON AND THE BRITISH

 

 

Wellington and Blucher meet at La Belle Alliance

Wellington and Blucher:  "Quelle affaire!"

 

 

Wellington returns to headquarters after the meeting with Blucher

 

 

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The Day After the Battle by John Heaviside Clark, 1816

Clark sketched the battlefield on June 19

 

 

'Battle of Waterloo' by Matthew Dubourg, after John Heaviside Clark

published 18 April 1816, NPG

 

Poem excerpt, by Sir Walter Scott, at bottom:

"The wounded shewed their mangled plight

In token of the unfinished fight'

And from each anguish laden wain

The blood drops laid thy dust like rain."

 

Wellington writes his dispatches

 

The Boehm's residence at 16 St. James's Square

where the dispatches were delivered Wednesday, June 21 to the Prince Regent

(Now the East India Club)

 

Col. Percy's jacket worn at Waterloo and to deliver the despatches in London

At Alnwick Castle, ©Lessingimages.com

 

a frigate similar to HMS Peruvian

Artist's version of the presentation of the Imperial Eagles to the Prince Regent by Henry Percy

(note it shows three Eagles when in fact there were two)

 

Reports of victory reach Windsor

Skeleton of soldier found in 2011 in Belgium

while excavating near the Lion Mound, probably the location of a

British field hospital; lower shows the musket ball in the ribs, probably the cause of death

 

General Sir Charles Colville 1770-1843

Commander of Fourth Division and conqueror of Cambrai, June 24, 1815

 

Pont d'Jena, Paris bridge saved from destruction by the Prussians in 1815

Even though it commemorated  an 1806 French Victory, Wellington said

"A bridge is a bridge" or something of the sort

 

Jena Bridge, PARIS

contemporary view of staircase driven down by James Bond

in film A View to Kill (1985) LOL! 

 

 

Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch

by David Wilkie, Apsley House