"Finding Soult’s Registries" Topic

"The registry, or order book, that Soult turned over to Grouchy on June 25, 1815, is famously lost. Grouchy would publish a copy of it, but only from June 13, and it was very incomplete.

An exhaustive search for additional materials has been ongoing since 2013. As it has now been over 200 years since the campaign ended, it will take expanding our search to find new materials.

The cent-jours was probably one of the most dramatic episodes for those who lived it, thus its expected that some individuals would have collected mementos from this period…"
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Yours for the princely sum of $350 USDUS.. ok, seems interesting,

Cost me $150,000 USD to collect and transcribe these volumes – for an audience of maybe 100 individuals.

$350 USD basically covers cost of production of the 5 volumes.

This research has rewritten the campaign.

But the most important element of this research are the few pages in the conclusion where I delineate how much remains in private collections. Reports from 1st and 2nd Corps for June 15 and June 16. A registry of Soult. The balance of Bertrand's registry/notes from 1815.

Why are we satisfied to continue to repeat 19th century myth? Where is the outrage at what remains in private hands? Why are we not clamoring for the truth?