1815, the Waterloo Campaign : the German Victory: From Waterloo to the Fall of Napoleon-- Demonstrates the decisive German contribution to victory at Waterloo -- Unpublished German eyewitness accounts and regimental reports -- Covers the battles of Waterloo, Wavre and the taking of Paris Peter Hofschroer, in this second volume of his masterly study of 1815, challenges the accepted version of events at the battle of Waterloo. He demonstrates convincingly that Allied victory was due not to steadfast British infantry repelling the French, but to the timely arrival of Prussian troops who stole victory from Napoleon and sealed the fate of the last Grande Armee. Drawing on previously unpublished accounts, Hofschroer gives not only the Prussian perspective of their march to Waterloo and decisive attack on Napoleon's flank, but also details of the actions fought by some of the 25,000 Germans in Wellington's 'British' army -- more than a third of the Duke's force. A gripping narrative of astonishing detail captures such key episodes of Waterloo as La Haye Sainte, Papelotte, Hougoumont and the Prussian struggle with the Imperial Guard for Plancenoit. In addition, Hofschroer examines the battle at Wavre, the Allied offensive into France, the taking of Paris and the sieges across northern France. 1815: The Waterloo Campaign-The German Victory is a definitive work on an epic confrontation by one of today's leading military writers. |
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Illustrations Maps and Tables | 7 |
Comparative Table of Ranks | 13 |
The Confusion of Battle | 19 |
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1st Brigade 6-pounders advance Allied ammunition Army Corps arrived attack Avesnes battalions battle Belle Alliance bivouacked Blücher bridge British Bülow's cavalry column command Compiègne cuirassiers d'Erlon deployed detachment Duke of Wellington enemy Exelmans Fichermont fire Foot Battery forces fortress French front garrison Genappe Général de brigade Général de division Generalmajor German Givet Grouchy Grouchy's Guard guns Hanoverian headquarters Horse Battery howitzers Hussar Regiment Infantry Regiment IV Army Corps IV Corps June Kapitain Kleist Kurmark Landwehr La Haye Sainte Landrecies Landwehr Landwehr Battalion Landwehr Cavalry Laon left flank Lettow-Vorbeck Line Regiment Major Major-General Maubeuge move Müffling Namur Napoleon Netherlands night Oberst Oberstlieutenant officers ordered outposts Paris Pflugk-Harttung Philippeville Pirch Plancenoit Pomeranian position Prinz Prussian Quatre Bras rearguard Reserve Artillery Reserve Cavalry right flank road sent Silesian Landwehr skirmishers Soissons squadrons St Lambert Thielemann town troops Uhlans Vandamme vanguard village Voss Waterloo Wavre Westphalian Landwehr Zieten