A description of the costly and curious military carriage of the late Emperor of France: taken on the evening of the battle of Waterloo; with its superb and curious contents, as purchased by government, and now exhibiting (by permission) at the London Museum, Piccadilly; with the circumstances of the capture, accurately described, by Major Baron von Keller, by whom it was taken and brought to England
London: printed for William Bullock, 1816
8460.d.123(2), folding plate opposite title page

The illustration to the pamphlet published by Bullock in 1816 shows the capture of the carriage being effected by soldiers on foot: the only mounted figure is the bare-headed Napoleon. Beneath the image is an extract of a letter from Blücher, dated from Gosselies, just north of Charleroi, on 20 June, which is quoted more extensively later in the pamphlet:

‘Napoleon escaped in the night, without either hat or sword. I send both sword and hat to-day to the King. His most magnificently embroidered state mantle, and his carriage, are in my hands; as his perspective glass, with which he observed us during the battle. His jewels, and all his valuables, are the booty of our troops. Of his equipage, he has nothing left.

Many a private soldier has got five or six hundred dollars in booty. Napoleon was in the carriage to retreat, when he was surrounded by our troops: he leaped out, jumped upon his horse without his sword, losing his hat, which fell off; and so he probably escaped under favour of the night.’