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tion of Waterloo, which I immediately handed to him. The Duke then gave directions to Sir William De Lancey to put the army in position at Waterloo, forming them across the Nivelles and Charleroi chaussees."--Porter's _History of the Corps of Royal Engineers_, vol. i., p. 380. See also Ropes' _Waterloo_, p. 296. (18) "He was able to speak in a short time after the fall, and when the Duke of Wellington took his hand and asked how he felt, he begged to be taken from the crowd that he might die in peace, and gave a message to me."--_Abridged Narrative._ (19) Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Delancey Barclay, 1st Foot Guards. See _Army List_ for 1815, pp. 30 and 145, also _Waterloo Roll Call_, p. 30. (20) Probably a barn at the farm of Mont St Jean, about 700 yards north of the Wellington Tree. (21) Doubtless the village of Mont St Jean, the village of Waterloo being two miles further north. When Miss Waldie (afterwards Mrs Eaton--see _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. lix., p. 26) went to Waterloo on the 15th July, she noticed the name of Sir William De Lancey written in chalk on the door of a cottage, where he had slept the night before the battle. (_Waterloo Days_, p. 125.) The sketch on the opposite page is reproduced from _Sketches in Flanders and Holland_, by Robert Hills, 1816, and shows the village of Mont St Jean, as it appeared a month after the battle. The figures in the foreground represent villagers returning from the battlefield with cuirasses, brass eagles, bullets, etc., which they had picked up. [Illustration: THE VILLAGE OF MONT ST JEAN, 1815.] (22) See _Waterloo Roll Call_, p. 35, and _Army List_ for 1815, p. 31. (23) The Duke began the Waterloo despatch very early on the 19th at Waterloo, but he finished it at Brussels, that same morning. (24) _I.e._, not only Waterloo, but Ligny, Quatre Bras, and the fighting that took place on the 15th and 17th June. (25) Mr William Hay of Duns Castle. He had been in the 16th Light Dragoons in the Peninsular War (see _Army List_ for 1811, p. 89), and had come over from England a few days before to see his old friends, and introduce his young brother, Cornet Alexander Hay, to his old regiment. (26) Mr Hay was on the battlefield during the early part of the fight. Early next morning he revisited the field, to try to find some trace of his brother. The body was never found. He had been killed late at night on the French position, while the 16t
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