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The “Pope” of Holland House
John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 22 June 1815
INTRODUCTION & INDEXES
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Preface
Contents
Introduction
Chapter I: 1813
Chapter II: 1814
Chapter III: 1815
Chapter IV: 1816
Chapter V: 1817
Chapter VI: 1818
Chapter VII: 1819
Chapter VIII: 1820
Chapter IX: 1821
Chapter X: 1822
Chapter XI: 1824-33
Chapter XII: 1833-35
Chapter XIII: 1806-40
Chapter XIV: Appendix
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“Bivouac, near Cateau,
“June 22, 1815.

“The fate of Europe has perhaps been decided in one battle; and from what I have seen I do not wonder at the success of Buonaparte on former occasions. His dispositions and manoeuvres were excellent; and his troops must have beat to the Devil any others but the British commanded by such a hero

1 Son of Sir Ralph Abercromby, brother of the first Lord Dunfermline.

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Death of Whitbread
as Wellington. We are moving on with the Prussians, and the French are still flying. The fugitive will be driven to Paris; for I really do not think he will be able to face us at Laon. The people are all quiet, and receive us as they did in the South, determined pretty much to let the armies fight it out between them.”