Published by T. & W. Boone, 29, New Bond Street, 3 



BATTZiES OP QXTATas-BRAS, XiXGNlT, WAVBE, 



A.ND 



WATERI.OO. 



Nem, revised, and cheaper edition, complete in 1 vol. Svo. uniform with General 

 Napier's History of the War in the Peninsula, and the Wellington Dispatches. 



DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, THE QUEEN. 



HISTOET OP THE 



WAR IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, 



IN 1815, 



FROM THE TESTIMONY OP EYE-WITNESSES AND OTHEE SOURCES, EXCLUSIVE AND 



AUTHENTIC. 



BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM SIBORNE, 



CONSTRUCTOR OP THE '' WATERLOO MODEL." 



Third Edition, beautifutty embellished with Medallion Portraits, engraved on steel, of 



LoR[> HlLt, 



SouLT, Duke of Dalmatia, 

 Nev, Duke of Elchingen, 

 Count Alten, 

 Sir Thomas Picton. 



The Duke of Wellington, 

 Prince Blucher von Wahlstadt, 

 Napoleon Buonaparte, 

 Thp. Duke of Brunswick, 

 The Prince of Orange, 

 The Mar<3ues3 of Anglesey, 



A Folio Atlas of Anaglyptograpliic Engravings on Steel, from Models, containing 



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

 2 - - LiGNY - - - - - ditto. 



2 - - - Watre - - - . . - ditto. 



3 - - - Waterloo - . - - . . ditto. 



With Maps of Belgium and part of France, illustrative of the above, sold separately, 



price \2s. 



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

 of the 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 the 

 collection of materials for the accurate representation of an event so fertile in glorious 

 achievements, and so decisive in its influence upon the destinies of Europe, as also of the 

 professional skill with which those materials have been arranged for the complete deve- 

 lopment of that ever memorable conflict, offers a sufficient guarantee for a similar appli- 

 cation 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 last campaign in Europe, comprising the crowning 

 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 

 termed, which was put in motion, regulated, and controlled by the greatest masters of 

 their art, who, in modem times, have been summoned forth to wield the mighty engines 

 of destruction wherewith nation wars against nation. How just is the observation of 

 Joraini, one of the most talented military writers of the day — " Jamais bataille ne fut 

 plus confus^ment d^crite que celle de Waterloo.*' On consulting these accounts the 

 public glean little beyond the fact that at Waterloo the allied army stood its ground 

 during the whole day, in defiance of the reiterated attacks by the French, until the Duke 



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