Talk:Jean Baptiste van Merlen

2018
Heading of article should say fought against French at Waterloo Peer60plus (talk) 02:34, 22 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Heading should read fought against N . Peer60plus (talk) 07:22, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Willem François Boreel
I removed the following from the artilce

The exception was Willem François Boreel who was intensely loyal but had not led troops in battle for 20 years. Boreel was appointed commander of the 6th Dutch Hussar Regiment in Merlen's brigade. At the Battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815 he ordered a charge before the regiment had formed properly and failed to hold back a reserve in case of defeat. The result of the disorderly charge was a rout of the 6th Hussars and the loss of 13 men killed and a large number of men with saber and lance wounds. This unfortunate rout, which occurred in full view of allied soldiers, persuaded many British officers that the Dutch were bad troops, when in fact the problem was Boreel's poor regimental leadership.

While perhapse it might be suitable for this biography if it were of the length of the biography on the Duch Wiki, at the moment it overwhelms this biography and so give WP:UNDUE weight to an isssue this is only tangental to the subject of this biogrpahy -- PBS (talk) 18:10, 30 June 2019 (UTC)