Transcriber's Note: A table of contents has been added for thereader's convenience. Minor, obvious printer errors have beencorrected without note. Numbers in brackets are footnotes, which areset forth below the paragraphs in which they appear. Numbers inparentheses appearing in the narrative are endnotes, which are linkedto the Notes to Lady De Lancey's Narrative.


A WEEK AT WATERLOO
IN 1815

LADY DE LANCEY’S NARRATIVE

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HOW SHE NURSED HER HUSBAND, COLONEL SIR WILLIAMHOWE DE LANCEY, QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL OF THE ARMY, MORTALLY WOUNDED INTHE GREAT BATTLE

EDITED BY MAJOR B.R. WARD
ROYAL ENGINEERS

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1906


Major William Howe De Lancey

Major William Howe De Lancey
45th Regiment c. 1800.
Emery Walker Ph.Sc.


“Dim is the rumour of a common fight,
When host meets host, and many names are sunk;
But of a single combat Fame speaks clear.”

—Sohrab and Rustum.

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815

NOTES TO LADY DE LANCEY’S NARRATIVE

APPENDIX A
Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scottand Charles Dickens

APPENDIX B
Bibliography of Lady De Lancey’s Narrative

INDEX


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Major William Howe De Lancey, 45th Regt. ofFoot, c. 1800. From a miniature in the possessionof Wm. Heathcote De Lancey of New YorkFrontispiece
The Gold Cross of Sir Wm. De Lancey, receivedafter serving in the Peninsular War, withclasps for Talavera, Nive, Salamanca, SanSebastian, and Vittoria. In the possession ofMajor J.A. HayFace p.10
Lady De Lancey. From a miniature after J.D.Engleheart"...

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