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extended. The Prussian picquet still remained where Sir W. Delaney 
had first perceived it. Some Nassau light troops occupied the ridges 
in our front near Papelotte and some very little field pieces which they 
occasionally fired attracted now and then the fire of the French much 
heavier guns. The German Legion was on oar right and appeared 
to extend to the Pave road, and was on the face of a round hill ^called 
Mont St. Jean. 
We could see, further on to our right, a considerable way along the 
front of our army. From the continual fall of wet since yesterday 
afternoon the ground had become very deep, and did not bear the guns 
well. It was about noon (when, as I have said, we were in advance of 
the British position with our Brigade) that the French column crowned 
the opposite heights, and they now again got into motion and, making 
a rapid and simultaneous push forward, both Infantry and Cavalry 
neared our whole line, and instantly the battle was commenced. The 
artillery of both armies maintained a terrible cannonade. At the 
centre and right the French brought into action a line of 70 or 80 guns. 
Supported by this battery a column of Infantry advanced with loud 
shouts of “ Vive VEmpereur” and drove back one of our divisions from 
its position: they were then charged by our Cavalry and completely 
routed with great loss. The same Cavalry then advanced against a 
body of French Cavalry, which approached supported by another 
column of their Cavalry, to save or sustain their broken and retiring 
infantry. As the two lines of Cavalry neared each other the French 
rather hesitated or at least slackened their pace, the English increased 
