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Waterloo - Great Battles (Hardcover)
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Waterloo - Great Battles (Hardcover)
Series: Great Battles
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Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which
finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved the deployment of
huge armies and incurred heavy losses on both sides; for those who
fought in it, Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well
as British and French troops, it was a murderous struggle. It was a
battle that would be remembered very differently across Europe. In
Britain it would be seen as an iconic battle whose memory would be
enmeshed in British national identity across the following century.
In London news of the victory unleashed an outburst of patriotic
celebration and captured the imagination of the public. The Duke of
Wellington would go on to build his political career on it, and
towns and cities across Britain and the Empire raised statues and
memorials to the victor. But it was only in Britain that Waterloo
acquired this iconic status. In Prussia and Holland its memory was
muted - in Prussia overshadowed by the Battle of the Nations at
Leipzig, in Holland a simple appendage to the prestige of the House
of Orange. And in France it would be portrayed as the very epitome
of heroic defeat. Encapsulated in the bravery of General Cambronne
and the last stand of the Old Guard, remembered movingly in the
lines of Stendhal and Victor Hugo, the memory of Waterloo served to
sustain the romantic legend of the Napoleonic Wars - and
contributed to the growing cult of Napoleon himself.
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