Eureka Reporter | 1906-03-16 | Page 7 | In Napoleon's Last Effort

IN NAPOLEON S LAST EFFORT six battalions of french guard made final attack at waterloo further light on the tattle of water loo is shed by prof oman of eng land f rom the archives of the french war offices he has obtained alon never before made public which Is in the form of a return sign ed by berlot o 0 the morning of 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 of 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 full battalions on the morning of aig ny as shown by the new return which has been discovered and 2 by the tables of M martinien Martl nien 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 therefore it must have been still eer 1 strong and form ed two full battalions ney s attack therefore was delivered by six not five battalions supported as we believe by two more of the second chas deurs somewhere to the rear of the echelon formed by the others brook lyn eagle