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English: Jean-Baptiste Decoster Mary Dawson Turner from a drawing by Charles Alfred Stothard. Jean-Baptiste Decoster was a farmer and a landlord who was accompanied Napoleon during the Battle of Waterloo to answer his questions about the local topography. Afterwards Decoster became a battlefield guide and is mentioned in the accounts of prominent contemporary visitors such as Sir Walter Scott
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Source Glover, Gareth (1 September 2014) Waterloo: Myth and Reality, Pen and Sword, p. 395 ISBN: 978-1-4738-3834-5.
Author Mary Dawson Turner from a drawing by Charles Alfred Stothard

The drawing was originally published in Stothard, Charles (1823) Memoirs Including Original Journals, Letters, Papers and Antiquarian Tracts of the Late Charles Alfred Stothard, ... with Connective Notices of His Life (etc.)- London, Longman 1823, Longman, pp. viii,418

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