LIEUT.-GENERAL THOMAS DYNELEY, C.B., B.A. 409 
wounded on both sides were entirely stript in less than half an hour; 
fellows got drunk, and by 12 o’clock half the town was in flames. I 
am not far wrong when I say that more than half of our killed were 
killed by our own people; however, this is only for your own private 
ears, it is too disgraceful for the Hnglish name to relate. We lost 
General Mackinnon, blown up; General Craufurd was mortally, and 
General Vandeleur! slightly, wounded. 
The fire upon our batteries was really so hot that it was almost im- 
possible for the men to stand to their guns. The Commandant of 
the French Artillery says himself that he threw 1000 shells into our 
batteries, and I must do them the justice to say, artillery could not 
have been better served. 
I know not what your mother will say when she hears I was present, 
her last words to me at St. John’s Wood were: “ Mind Dyneley, let’s 
hear of none of your volunteering.” My last letters from home tell 
me the General? has been unwell, [ hope he is not so now. 
Tell Robert I wish he would call at Adam’s, 60, Fleet Street, and 
tell him the glass he sent to Bloomsbury Square is really about as bad 
a one as I ever looked through. It was the one Taylor gave me, and 
he was not stinted in price, the only object was that the glass should 
be good. I bought one at Portsmouth for 30s., which is acknowledged 
by every one to be quite as good if not better. Tell R.to abuse him 
well. 
1 Major-General Vandeleur afterwards commanded a brigade of Light Cavalry at Waterloo. 
2 General Robert Douglas (Kane’s List, No. 424), Colonel-Commandant Inyalid Battalion and 
R.A. Driver Corps, his family were intimate friends of the Dyneley’s; this letter and others are 
written to one of his sons, 2nd Captain John Kearsley Douglas (Kane’s List, No. 1070.) 
