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- These three drawfiles (CavCasWloo, InfCasWloo and KGLCasWloo) summarise
- the official statistics for British and King's German Legion casualties
- in the Waterloo Campaign 16th - 22nd June 1815. Because these figures
- are actually from the end of the campaign, they do not record the total
- butcher's bill. Men were still dying of wounds long after; one British
- Foot Guards officer died of malnutrition two years later, having lost
- his jaw and tongue in the battle. The watercolour sketches of Sir
- Charles Bell, a civilian surgeon who helped the overworked regimental
- surgeons after the battle, are an astonishingly vivid record of the
- suffering of the wounded; they present a very different picture of the
- battle from the glamorous paintings, mostly painted long after by
- Victorian salon painters, through which we normally view the period. I
- hope to get permission to include sprites of some of his sketches in the
- Dossier.
-
- D. Morfitt, 25.3.1997