-LIEUT.-GENERAL THOMAS DYNELEY, C.B., B.A, 549 
did exceedingly well. I think I could have astonished one of those cold 
legs of pork which I have so often left with unconcern at luncheon at 
Twyford.| The next morning (18th) we were turned out by Vivian and 
half a dozen galloping aides-de-camp after him, who came into our camp 
calling out: “Turn out artillery! turn out artillery!” We thought by 
the noise they made we should have the fellows upon us before we had 
time to hook in; however, we were not Jong in moving off, and had 
advanced about half a mile when we came upon the French army. 
Little was done on either side till about twelve o’clock, when they 
brought their artillery forward, deployed into line, and opened about 
40 pieces upon us at once, The rascals certainly did this beautifully, 
at the same time sending a very strong body of infantry, supported by 
their cuirassiers, on our centre. I went with a couple of guns and 
peppered away at them until the Life Guards charged, passed through 
them, out the other side upon the cuirassiers and broke them most 
completely. Had the Life Guards pulled up here and secured their 
prisoners, our loss would have been trifling, instead of which, without 
two men being together, they galloped on, every man his own com- 
manding officer, until they came upon the second line of infantry, who 
were lying down behind a high bank in wait for them; they opened 
fire and scarce a man of ours returned. Many of the Greys had gone 
past the infantry without seeing them and were brought down in 
returning. 
The enemy, finding they had failed in the centre, sent a prodigious 
mass of cavalry to force the great Brussels wood, but were repulsed as 
often as they charged. Some of our troops of Horse Artillery lost 
their guns two or three times in the course of the day, and suffered 
most dreadfully in men and horses. We were more fortunate on the 
whole, but at the time the Greys were charging, the enemy threw a 
shell directly into one of our limbers and blew it to atoms, killed the 
sergeant and wounded four men, these with about seven or eight men 
killed and wounded and a dozen or 15 horses, are all we lost, not an 
officer touched. ‘The French behayed worse to our wounded than ever 
[remember them to have done. Poor Major Howard? of the 10th 
had been wounded in the face and was going to the rear when two 
infantrymen pulled him off his horse and beat his brains out with their 
muskets ! 
Well, but I forgot, I should have gone on with the fight. About 
five o’clock the Prussians came into action; we had seen the head of 
their colamn four hours before and were not a little anxious to see 
their first gun fire. They advanced with a very heavy body of cavalry 
in front, with which they charged the moment they came on the ground. 
Ihis was a remarkably fine sight and our army gave them three cheers. 
i Twyford Abbey, Acton. The,home of the Douglas family.—E’. 
2 With regard to Major Howard’s death, Siborne says that at the end of the day, Howard, 
with a party of the 10th Hussars, by order of General Vivian, charged an intact square of the 
Grenadiers of the Guard. The charge was unsuccessful though made home to the bayonets of the 
enemy. Howard was shot in the mouth and fell senseless to the ground, when one of the Imperial 
Guard stepped from the ranks and killed him with the butt-end of his musket.—-See Siborne, Vol. 
II., p. 218, also Waterloo letters, p. 176. 
