 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pages
...yesterday morning, and at about ten o'clock he commenced a furious attack upon our post at Hougomont. I had occupied that post with a detachment from General...which was in position in its rear ., and it was for sometime under the command of LieutenantColonel Maedonald, and afterwards of Colonel Home ; and I am... | |
 | Battle of Waterloo - 1849 - 114 pages
...front, in the course of the night of the 17th, and yesterday morning: and at about ten o'clock, he commenced a furious attack upon our post at Hougoumont. I had occupied that post with a detachment from Gen. Byng's brigade of Guards, which was in position in its rear ; and it was for some time under the... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1850 - 474 pages
...furious attack upon our post at Hougomont. I had occupied that post with a detachment from General Byug's brigade of guards, which was in position in its rear: and it was for sometime under the command of LieutenantColonel Macdonald, and afterwards of Colonel Home; and I am... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Generals - 1852 - 562 pages
...our front, in the course of the night of the 17th and yesterday morning, and at about ten o'clock he commenced a furious attack upon our post at Hougoumont....rear ; and it was for some time under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Macdonell, and afterwards of Colonel Home ; and I am happy to add that it was maintained... | |
 | George Jones - Quatre-Bras, Battle of, Quatre-Bras, Belgium, 1815 - 1852 - 748 pages
...our front, in the course of the night of the 17th and yesterday morning; and at about ten o'clock he commenced a furious attack upon our post at Hougoumont....detachment from General Byng's brigade of Guards, wliich was in position in its rear; and it was for some time under the command of Lieutenant-colonel... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Generals - 1852 - 562 pages
...our front, in the course of the night of the 17th and yesterday morning, and at about ten j'clock he commenced a furious attack upon our post at Hougoumont. I had occupied that post with a detachment Tom General Byng's brigade of Guards, which was in )osition in its rear ; and it was for some time... | |
 | James Simpson - Paris (France) - 1853 - 384 pages
...furious attack upon our post at Hougomont. I had occupied that post with a detachment from General Byng"s brigade of guards, which was in position in its rear...Macdonald, and afterwards of Colonel Home ; and I am happy to add, that it was maintained throughout the day with the utmost gallantry by these brave troops,... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1853 - 322 pages
...furious attack upon our post at * Alison. 184 ATTACKS Or THE ESEMY. Hougomont. I had occupied this post -with a detachment from General Byng's brigade...for some time under the command of LieutenantColonel Macdonnell, and afterwards of Colonel Home, and I am happy to add that it was maintained throughout... | |
 | Ludwig von Reiche - Generals - 1857 - 468 pages
...front , in the course of the night of the 1 7th and yesterday morning and, at about ten o'clock he commenced a furious attack upon our post at Hougoumont....rear, and it was for some time under the command of Lieut. Colonel M'Donell, and afterwards of Colonel Home; and I am happy to add that it was maintained... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1915 - 878 pages
...our front, in the course of the night of the 17th and yesterday morning, and at about ten o'clock he commenced a furious attack upon our post at Hougoumont. I had occupied that post with a detachment from Gen. Byng's brigade of Guards, which was in position in its rear ; and it was for some time under the... | |
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Macdonell, and afterwards of Colonel Home ; and I am happy to add that it was maintained throughout the day with the utmost gallantry by these brave troops, notwithstanding the repeated efforts of large bodies of the enemy to obtain possession of it. 
