File:Plate 13-a, 'Sketches in Flanders and Holland' by Robert Hills (1816).jpg

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English: Robert Hills describes this drawing: ""[This plate], comprises nearly all that part of the field of battle which was occupied by the right and left centre of the British forces. The group of figures on horseback, and the wagon, towards the foreground on the left, have been so placed, because some of the country people pointed to the distant grounds immediately over them, as the spots occupied by the extreme right of the English cavalry and infantry. From plans published since, among which are the sketches of Captain Batty, whose correctness cannot be doubted, it appears that these indexes ought to have been under the right of the church-steeple; they would then have been placed too on the spot near which the Prince of Orange was wounded. The wood and orchard of Hougoumont are conspicuous in this view—the church, seen to the right of them, but considerably more distant, is at Braine La Leud. Meuke Braine, near which Lord Hill’s division was posted, lies rather still further to the right—and the rest of the subject extends towards La Haye Sainte, and Mount St. Jean."
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  • Hills, Robert (1816) "Index to Plates" in Sketches in Flanders and Holland: With Some Account of a Tour Through Parts of Those Countries, Shortly After the Battle of Waterloo; in a Series of Letters to a Friend, J. Haines and J. Turner, pp. vii,viii
Author Robert Hills

Engraved by J. Bailey, page 89

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