Note 703 — Chapter XVI · THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
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The following extract from a letter by Baron Müffling written on June 24, 1815, is directly in point here:—
“Before we arrived there I said to the Duke, ‘If only there were an apparently weak point in the right flank of your position, so that Bonaparte might assail it right furiously, and neglect his own right wing to such an extent that he should fail to discover the march of the Prussians!’
“And see! when we arrived there, there lay the advanced post of Hougomont, upon which he (B.) indeed fell.” Militär Wochenblatt, Nov. 14, 1891.