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I send herewith the report of the people coming from Condé.' [4] This report was a most valuable document containing dates, places and numbers of French troops. Wellington wrote back at 9 am on 11 May to thank Zieten for this information. [5] May 12: 'The news I have just received from the border confirms that the enemy is on the defensive.' [6]
In his official dispatch written only a few days later Wellington stated unequivocally that ‘I did not hear of these events [the French attack on Zieten’s corps] till the evening of the 15 th ’ (Wellington to Bathurst, 19 June 1815, WD VIII p 146-51, quote on p 146). But an intense controversy has raged over the question intermittently almost ever since.
The evidence to support such an early message is very weak, however. Most historians now believe that Zieten did not send a message to Wellington based solely on the initial sounds of firing at 4:30 a.m., but instead waited until reports from the front arrived at his headquarters.
When did Zieten inform Wellington of the Commencement of the French Offensive? The popular version of the events of the morning of 15 June 1815 as given in several English language accounts of the campaign is that the Prussians were tardy in informing their British allies of the French assault on their section of the front in the Netherlands, and the resulting commencement of hostilities.
John Hussey correctly stresses the importance of the reference to the attack on the village of Thuin, which occurs first in Zieten's 8:15 a.m. message and is then repeated in Wellington's 10 p.m ...
General Zieten’s Message to the Duke of Wellington on 15 June 1815 Gregory W. Pedlow, Belgium General Zieten’s. 31 I prefer, since the document is actually a unit
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