Waterloo: New Perspectives: The Great Battle ReappraisedCritical acclaim for Waterloo: New Perspectives The Great Battle Reappraised. "[T]he most important study of the Waterloo Campaign to have appeared in print for 150 years." —The Napoleonic Society of America. "A meticulously detailed account of the Battle of Waterloo that sets right some of the errors and omissions of facts committed by earlier contemporary authors —recommended." —Library Journal. "A superior account of the campaign—free of nationalist bias, thoroughly researched, and clearly written."—Booklist "A thoughtful and dispassionate examination of the battle that brought Napoleon's power to an end ...a valuable addition to anyone's Napoleonic shelf." —The Washington Times. |
Contents
FOREWORD by The Marquess of Anglesey | 9 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 15 |
The End and the Beginning | 31 |
Copyright | |
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Waterloo: New Perspectives: The Great Battle Reappraised David Hamilton-Williams No preview available - 1996 |
Waterloo: New Perspectives : the Great Battle Reappraised David Hamilton-Williams No preview available - 1995 |
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advance Allied armies Anglo-Allied arrived assault attack Austrian battalions battery battle Belgian Blücher Bourbon Braine-le-Comte Britain British Brunswick Brussels Bülow campaign Captain Castlereagh cavalry centre Charleroi Colonel columns command corps cuirassiers d'Artois d'Erlon defend division Duke Durutte's Emperor enemy Exelmans field fight fire Fleurus force Fouché France Frasnes French front Genappe Gneisenau Grouchy Grouchy's guns Hanoverian Haye Sainte headquarters horse artillery Hougoumont Hussars Ibid Imperial Guard infantry IV Corps Jäger June King King's German Legion La Haye Sainte lancers letter light Ligny Lobau's Louis Marshal Ney military Mont St-Jean move Müffling Namur Napoleon Nassau Netherlands Ney's Nivelles numbers officers orders Paris position Prince of Orange Prussian army Quatre Bras rear rearguard regiment Reille Reille's reserve retreat road Royal royalist sent Siborne Siborne's skirmishers Smohain Soignies soldiers Sombreffe Soult squadrons squares staff tion troops Tsar Vandamme Waterloo Wavre Wellington wing wood yards