Show IN NAPOLEONS LAST EFFORT six battal ons of french guard made final attack at waterloo further light on the battle of water loo Is shed by prof oman of eng land from the archives ol 01 the french war offices he has obtained informs alon never before made public which Is in the form of a return sign ed by berlot on the morning ol 01 the battles of bligny ligny and bras it will be recollected that M houssaye has stated and it has been generally accepted that only alve battalions ot the french guard were engaged in ney s final attack on the british light center at waterloo he says that the fourth Chass eurs was a small ment originally and suffered so severely at bligny ligny that it was consolidated into a single battalion on june 18 these assertions prof oman remarks are contradicted 1 by the tact that it certainly had 1 bayonets two lull battalions on the morning ol 01 ug ny as shown by the new return which has been discovered and 2 by the tables of M martinien Martin len which dem on strate that the regiment lost not one single officer killed or wounded at bligny ligny it cannot possibly have had more than twenty or thirty casualties in the rank and file probably less at waterloo thereto e it must have been still 1 strong and form ed two full battalions attack therefore was delivered by six not five battalions supported as we be aleve by two more of the second chas deurs somewhere to the rear ol 01 the echelon formed by the others brook lyn eagle |