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قراءة كتاب A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle
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A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle
Transcriber's Note: A table of contents has been added for the reader's convenience. Minor, obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Numbers in brackets are footnotes, which are set forth below the paragraphs in which they appear. Numbers in parentheses appearing in the narrative are endnotes, which are linked to the Notes to Lady De Lancey's Narrative.
A WEEK AT WATERLOO
IN 1815
LADY DE LANCEY’S NARRATIVE
BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HOW SHE NURSED HER HUSBAND, COLONEL SIR WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCEY, QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL OF THE ARMY, MORTALLY WOUNDED IN THE GREAT BATTLE
EDITED BY MAJOR B.R. WARD
ROYAL ENGINEERS
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1906
Major William Howe De Lancey
45th Regiment c. 1800.
Emery Walker Ph.Sc.
| “Dim is the rumour of a common fight, When host meets host, and many names are sunk; But of a single combat Fame speaks clear.” —Sohrab and Rustum. |
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815
NOTES TO LADY DE LANCEY’S NARRATIVE
APPENDIX A
Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens
APPENDIX B
Bibliography of Lady De Lancey’s Narrative
INDEX
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Major William Howe De Lancey, 45th Regt. of Foot, c. 1800. From a miniature in the possession of Wm. Heathcote De Lancey of New York | Frontispiece | |
| The Gold Cross of Sir Wm. De Lancey, received after serving in the Peninsular War, with clasps for Talavera, Nive, Salamanca, San Sebastian, and Vittoria. In the possession of Major J.A. Hay | Face p. | 10 |
| Lady De Lancey. From a miniature after J.D. Engleheart | " | 24 |
| Part of an Autograph Letter of Sir Walter Scott | " | 34 |
| Part of an Autograph Letter of Charles Dickens | " | 36 |
| Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, c. 1813 | " | 38 |
| Map of Part of the Battlefield of Waterloo | " | 110 |
| The Village of Mont St Jean, 1815 | " | 113 |
| The Waterloo Memorial in Evere Cemetery | " | 118 |
A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815
INTRODUCTION
The following narrative, written over eighty years ago, and now at last given to the world in 1906, is remarkable in many respects.
It is remarkable for its subject, for its style, and for its literary history.
The subject—a deathbed scene—might seem at first sight to be a trite and common one. The mise-en-scène—the Field of Waterloo—alone however redeems it from such a charge; and the principal actors play their part in no common-place or unrelieved tragedy. "Certainly," as Bacon says, "Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: For Prosperity doth best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue."
As to the style, it will be sufficient to quote the authority of Dickens for the statement that no one but Defoe could have told the story in fiction.
Its literary history is even more remarkable than either its style or its subject.
It is no exaggeration to say of the narrative—as