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WELLINGTON REPORT OF MILITARY EVENTS ON
JULY 6, 1815
Monday -- July 10th
Lord Arthur Hill, Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington, was the bearer of the dispatches announcing this welcome intelligence. He reached Downing Street about eleven o'clock on Thursday night, andshortly after, the following bulletin was circulated: --
"War Department, July 6, half-past 11 p.m.
Dispatches have been received this night from the Duke of
Wellington, dated Gonasse, July 2.
The French troops, marching from Soissons upon Paris, were
defeated by Marshal Blucher's advanced guard, at Villars Coterets,
on the 28th ult. They were forced back upon the Meaux road, where
they were again beaten by General Bulow, and driven across the
Marne. The remainder got into Paris.
The Duke of Wellington's army crossed the Oise on the 30th June,
and on the 1st instant took post with its right at Roche Bourg,
and its left on the wood of Bondy.
Marshal Blucher carried the village of Vertus on the morning of
the 30th ult. And then moving to the right across the Seine, the
Marshal took a position with his left at St. Cloud, and his right
at Plessis Pique.
The enemy had fortified St. Denis and Montmartre very strongly,
as well as the heights of Belle Ville, and had inundated the
ground in front. He had assembled 40,000 or 50,000 troops in
Paris, besides the national guards and the federes.
A subsequent dispatch, dated the 4th inst. Announces the
surrender of Paris, according to a military convention, concluded
on the 3rd of July."
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