Author: SIBORNE, CAPTAIN W. [ 1797-1849 ] .
Title: History of the War in France and Belgium, in 1815, containing minute details of the battles of Quatre-Bras, Lugny, Wavre, and Waterloo by Captain W. Siborne. Third and Revised Edition. With remarks upon the Rev. G. R. Gleig's "Story of Waterloo."
Description: London: T. and W. Boone, New Bond Street, MDCCCXLVIII. [ 1848 ] . 0. A very good full leather binding. 8vo. 8.5" x 6.0" x 1.5". Third edition. pp.xli/ [1p.]pp.584 pages + 11 portrait plates (as called for), without the 11 Maps that were included in the separate atlas volume. Polished brown diced calf. Brown leather title label to spine. Mrbled page edges and matching endpapers. previous owner's detail to front free-endpaper (dated 1922). Clean text throughout, just light foxing to the portraits. A well preserved copy. ** "William Siborne, Sibourne or Siborn (15 October 1797 – 9 January 1849) was a British officer and military historian whose most notable work was a history of the Waterloo Campaign.." - See Wikipedia *** "Captain William Siborne (1797-1852) can with certainty be identified as the last casualty of the Battle of Waterloo. True as this statement is, Siborne was never wounded in battle, nor was he on the field of Waterloo on that fateful day, 18 July 1815. Not until 15 years after the Duke of Wellington, later Lord Wellington, with Prussian help, had won the day. Siborne's misfortune lay in his brilliance as a topographer, investigator, and researcher. Ultimately, his scholarship led to revealing Wellington, by then Commander in Chief of the Army, in a sin of omission, which sealed the Siborne's fate as surely as the hangman's noose makes a kicking swinger of a man condemned to die at the gallows.." - see A. W. Cockerill 2011 , Duke of York's Royal Military School .

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