Note 186 — Chapter V · THE FIFTEENTH OF JUNE: BLÜCHER AND WELLINGTON.
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Disposition of the British Army at 7 o’clock A.M., 16th June.
1st division Braine le Comte marching to Nivelles and Quatre Bras.
2d „ „ marching to Nivelles.
3d „ Nivelles „ to Quatre Bras.
4th „ Audenarde „ to Braine le Comte.
5th „ beyond Waterloo „ to Genappe.
6th „ Assche „ to Genappe and Quatre Bras.
5th Hanoverian brigade Hal „ to Genappe and Quatre Bras.
4th „ beyond Waterloo „ to Genappe and Quatre Bras.
2d division army of the at Nivelles and Quatre Bras.
3d „ Low Countries
1st division „ Sotteghem marching to Enghien.
Indian brigade
Major-General Dörnberg’s brigade and Cumberland Hussars beyond Waterloo „ to Genappe and Quatre Bras.
Remainder of the cavalry Braine le Comte „ to Nivelles and Quatre Bras.
Duke of Brunswick’s Corps, beyond Waterloo „ to Genappe.
Nassau „ „ to Genappe.
The above disposition written out for the information of the commander of the Forces by Colonel Sir W. De Lancey. The centre column of names indicates the places at which the troops had arrived or were moving on. The column on the right of the paper indicates the places the troops were ordered to proceed to at 7 o’clock A.M., 16th June, previous to any attack on the British.
(Signed) DeLacy Evans.
By the phrase—“the places at which the troops had arrived or were moving on”—the writer means, in all probability, the places to which the troops were, in his judgment, nearest, at 7 A.M.