This is the complete order of battle for the four major battles of the Waterloo campaign.

The order of battle

French Army order of battle

Napoleon I of France

Anglo-allied Army order of battle

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Combined British, Dutch and Hanoverian forces were under the supreme command of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. The order of battle included below reflects all units of the Anglo-allied Army including those that were not present for the battles themselves (units spread across the area or on garrison duty). The casualty numbers include all the casualties suffered by each regiment over the three days of fighting during the campaign from 16 June 1815 to dawn on 19 June 1815.

Present at the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington had 71,257 soldiers available, 3,866 officers and 65,919 other ranks. By the end of the day's fighting the army had suffered 16,084 casualties (3,024 killed, 10,222 wounded and 2,838 missing) a loss of 24.6%.

Prussian Army order of battle

The Prussian Army was led by Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstadt and his chief of staff August von Gneisenau and remained independent from the allied Anglo-Dutch-German army during the course of the campaign.

See also

• Ligny order of battle
• Quatre Bras order of battle
• Military mobilisation during the Hundred Days

Notes

References

Bibliography

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• NHAE staff (22 October 2010), Allies Order of Battle, Waterloo 1815
• Pigeard, Alain (2005), La Garde Impériale (in French), Paris: Tallandier, Bibliothèque Napoléonienne, ISBN 2-84734-177-3
• Schneider, John (28 April 2012f), L'Armée du Nord (French Order of Battle for the campaign) (in French), archived from the original on 17 July 2012
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• Schneider, John (28 April 2012p), Das Königliche Preußische Heer des Niederrheins (Prussian Order of Battle for the campaign) (in German), archived from the original on 17 July 2012
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Further reading

• Dalton, Charles (1904), The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes (1904), London: Eyre and Spottiswoode — Short biographies on all ranks present down to Lieutenant-General, with a few more junior ranks, however the list of regiments includes footnotes on junior officers who went on to have notable careers.
• Gardner, Dorsey (1882), Quatre-Bras, Ligny and Waterloo; a narrative of the campaign in Belgium, 1815, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, & co., pp. 20–26 — Order of battle for the three armies with names and numbers.
• Maxwell, Will. Ham (1845), Life of Field Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington: (In Three Volumes), vol. 3 (4 ed.), H. G. Bohn, pp. 560–561 — List of staff officers.