3SATTI.SS OF QUATRS-BRAS, I.IGNV, WAVRE, 



AND 



WATERLOO. 



NoiD ready ^ the Second Edition, uniform with 

 General Najners History of the War in the Peninsula^ 

 and the Wellington DispatcheSy 

 Price £2. 2.?. 



DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, 



HISTORY OF THE 



WAR IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, 



IN 1815, 



FROM THE TESTIMONY OF EYE-WITNESSES AND OTHER SOURCES, EXCLUSIVE AND AUTHENTIC. 



BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM SIBORNE, 



CONSTRUCTOR OF THE " AVATERLOO MODEL." 



IN TWO VOLUMES, OCTAVO. 



BEAUTIFULLY EMBELLISHED WITH MEDALLION PORTRAITS, ENGRAVED ON STEEL, OF 



The Duke op Wellington, | The Prince of Orange, 



Prince Blucher von Wahlstadt, The Marquess op Anglesey, 



Napoleon Buonaparte, I Lord Hill, 



The Duke of Brunswick, | Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, 



Ney, Duke op Elciiingen, 



Count Alten, 



Sir Thomas Picton. 



AND A FOLIO ATLAS, 



OF ANAGLYPTOGRAPHIC ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL, FROM MODELS, CONTAINING 



2 Plans OF Quatre-Bras, shewing different Periods of the Action. 



2 - - - LiGNY -------- ditto. 



2 - - - Wavre _ - - ditto. 



3 - - - Waterloo - . - - . • ditto, 



WITH MAPS OF BELGIUM AND PART OF FRANCE. 



In announcing a History of the War in 1815, by the Constructor of tlie celebrated Model of tlie Battle 

 of Waterloo, the Publishers feel confident that the undeniable proof which the latter work of art affords 

 of the most indefatigable perseverance and industry in tlie collection of materials for the accurate repre- 

 sentation of an event so fertile in glorious achievements, and so decisive in its inHuenceupon the destmies 

 of Europe, as also of the professional skill with which those materials have been arranged for tlie com- 

 plete development of that ever memorable conflict, offers a sufficient guarantee for a similar application 

 of the author's unwearied zeal and research in the task he has undertaken of supplying what still remains 

 a desideratum in our national history and military records — a true and faithful account of that lost 

 campaign in Europe, comprising the ci'owning triumph of the British army, and, at the same time, the 

 closing chapter of the military life of its illustrious chief, the Duke of Wellington. 



Numerous as are the accounts already published of this great conflict, the information which they 

 convey is generally of too vague and indistinct a nature to satisfy either the military man who seeks for 

 professional instruction, or the general reader who desires to comprehend more clearly, in all its details, 

 that gorgeous machinery, if it may so be tenned, which was put in motion, regulated, and controlled by 



