Roll Call

archive.org/ details/ waterloorollcall00daltuoft There are lots of digitised history books available through archive. org, covering all kinds of Napoleonic subjects. You can read and download accounts of Nelson’s death, battles on sea and land, or this edition of the Waterloo Roll Call from 1904. It’s a Who’s Who of the battle, with all kinds of ‘biographical notes and anecdotes’, but not just relating to the great and good. For example, there’s Colour Sergeant Jonathan Thomas of the 23rd Regiment of Foot, whose brief entry records simply that he died at the Union Workhouse, Swansea, in December 1867.