Note 17 — Chapter XIII
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The light cavalry of the 2d Corps formed in three lines across the causeway from Nivelle, &c., nearly at the height of the first woods at Hougoumont, scouring all the plain by the left, and having main guards near Braine le Leude, and its battery of light artillery on the causeway of Nivelle.—‘Memoir of Napoleon,’ lib. ix. cap. vi. p. 134; O’Meara’s Translation.