注释

前言

1. See generally, Tim Blanning, ‘18. Juni 1815: Waterloo’, in Étienne Françis and Uwe Puschner (eds.), Erinnerungstage. Wendepunkte der Geschichte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (Munich, 2010), pp. 163–85.

2. Rowena Mason, ‘Waterloo battlefield in Belgium to get £1 million for 200th anniversary’, Daily Telegraph, 26.6.2013.

3. Ben Macintyre, ‘Without Prussia we’d all be speaking French’, The Times, 28.6.2013.

4. Quoted in Albert A. Nofi, The Waterloo Campaign, June 1815 (Cambridge, MA, 1998), p. 29.

5. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third, stanzas 18 and 35.

第1章

1. For a detailed account see Peter Hofschröer, 1815. The Waterloo Campaign:Wellington, his German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras (London, 1998) and Peter Hofschröer, Waterloo 1815. Quatre Bras and Ligny (Barnsley, 2005).

2. Friedrich Lindau, A Waterloo Hero. The Reminiscences of Friedrich Lindau, edited and presented by James Bogle and Andrew Uffindell (London, 2009), pp. 160–61.

3. Emanuel Biedermann, Erinnerungen, Wanderungen, Erfahrungen und Lebensansichten eines froh- und freisinnigen Schweizers (2 vols., Trogen, 1828), vol. 1, p. 187.

4. David Miller, The Duchess of Richmond’s Ball, 15 June 1815 (Staplehurst, 2005), pp. 120–21, 可见英王德意志军团只有另一个旅的一名军官出席。

5. John Kincaid, Adventures in the Rifle Brigade in the Peninsula, France and the Netherlands from 1808 to 1815 (London, 1830, reprint Staplehurst, 1998), pp. 160–62.

6. Biedermann, Erinnerungen, vol. 1, pp. 185–7.

7. Ibid., p. 186.

8. Wellington to Earl Bathurst, 19.6.1815, Wellington Historical Documents: 1783–1832, edited by A. Aspinall and E. A. Smith. Front cover. David Charles Douglas (Oxford, 1959), p. 933.

9. Biedermann, Erinnerungen, vol. 1, p. 186.

10. 私人信息来自其持有人Françis Cornet d’Elzius伯爵。

11. I am following here the chronology of ibid. p. 188.

12. Thus Carole Divall, ‘To the last cartridge. Wilhelm Wiese and Simon Lehmann of the King’s German Legion’, in idem, Napoleonic Lives. Researching the British Soldiers of the Napleonic Wars (Barnsley, 2012), p. 81.

13. David Howarth, Waterloo: A Near Run Thing (London, 1968), p. 121.

14. Biedermann, Erinnerungen, vol. 1, p. 189.

15. For an evocative account of the French army see Alan Forrest, Napoleon’s Men. The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire (London and New York, 2002).

16. Louis Canler, Mémoires de Canler, ancien chef du service de sûeté (Brussels and Leipzig, 1862), pp. 10–11.

17. Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d’Erlon, Le Maréchal Drouet, Comte d’Erlon. Vie militaire écritr par lui-même et dédieé à ses amis, (Paris, 1844), p. 96.

18. Canler, Mémoires, pp. 10–12.

19. D’Erlon, Vie militaire, p. 96.

20. Biedermann, Erinnerungen, vol. 1, p. 189.

第2章

1. 第2轻步兵营人员上下波动——1810年10月最多达695人——通常保持在460人左右。因此在滑铁卢战役中兵力大大不足：‘Monthly returns of Quarters of H. M. troops as applicable to Bexhill from 1795–1819’ (figures for 1804–14), Bexhill Hanoverian Study Group Records.

2. See N. Ludlow Beamish, History of the King’s German Legion (2 vols., London, 1832–7); N. Ludlow Beamish, Geschichte der Königlich Deutschen Legion (2 vols., 2nd edn, Berlin, 1906) (德文版中增加了新材料); Bernhard Schwertfeger, Geschichte der Königlich Deutschen Legion, Röniglich Dentschen Legion, 1803–1816 (2 vols., Hanover, 1907); Mike Chappell, The King’s German Legion (I) 1803–1812 (Oxford, 2000). 不要将英王德意志军团与汉诺威本地军队混淆，后者重组后也参加了滑铁卢战役：Peter Hofschröer (text) and Bryan Fosten (colour plates), The Hanoverian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (Oxford, 1989)。

3. For the earlier period see Torsten Riotte, ‘Die Entstehung der Königlich-deutschen Legion (1803–1806). Hannoverschen Truppen in britischen Diensten während der Napoleonischen Kriege’ (MA, University of Cologne, 1999), and for the later period Daniel S. Gray, ‘The services of the King’s German Legion in the Army of the Duke of Wellington, 1809–1815’ (DPhil dissertation, Florida State University, 1970). and ‘Chronologische Übersicht der K. deutschen Legion besonders mit Bezug auf die leichten Infanterie batallions vom Jahre 1805 bis 1816’, by Major Rautenberg, 1st Light Battalion, KGL, Hauptsstaatsarchiv Hannover (hereafter HStAH), Hann38D, 234. The definitive account for the whole period is Jens Mastnak, ‘Werbung und Ersatzwesen der Königlich Deutschen Legion 1803–1813’, Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 60 (2001), 119–42, and his forthcoming Die King’s German Legion 1803–1816. Lebenswirklichkeit in einer militärischen Formation der Koalitionskriege. The broader context is provided by Mark Wishon, German Forces and the British Army. Interactions and Perceptions, 1742–1815 (Basingstoke, 2013), pp. 165–92.