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In the six years that followed the abdication of Napoleon, many important events occurred.
In the first place, Tom Verner attained his sixth birthday, which he spent in the company of his father and mother and little sister at Brisbane House, Largs, Ayrshire, where Henry Verner was retained in the capacity of secretary. At the close of the war, Major-General Brisbane was made a K.C.B. So, Henry Verner, who had gone with Sir Thomas Brisbane to Canada, when that distinguished officer went there and commanded a brigade at Plattsburg, missed being present at Waterloo--an abiding disappointment to him. Brisbane, hurrying back to join Wellington's army, when he heard of Napoleon's escape from Elba, arrived too late. Waterloo had just been fought. But his distinguished friend, whose acquaintance he had made many years before in the Galway hunting-field, did not forget him, and Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane commanded a division in the British Army of Occupation in France. He sent Henry Verner back to Ayrshire to rejoin Juana and his little son, who were attached to the household during his absence in Canada.