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Waterloo: The 1815 Campaign, Volume II - From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe (Hardcover)
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Waterloo: The 1815 Campaign, Volume II - From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe (Hardcover)
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The concluding volume of this work provides a fresh description of
the climatic battle of Waterloo placed in the context of the whole
campaign. It discusses several vexed questions: Bl cher s
intentions for the battle, Wellington s choice of site, his reasons
for placing substantial forces at Hal, the placement of Napoleon s
artillery, who authorised the French cavalry attacks, Grouchy s
role on 18 and 19 June, Napoleon s own statements on the Garde s
formation in the final attack, and the climactic moment when the
Prussians reached Wellington s troops near la Belle Alliance. Close
attention is paid to the negotiations that led to the capitulation
of Paris, and subsequent French claims. The allegations of Las
Cases and later historians that Napoleon s surrender to Captain
Maitland of the Bellerophon amounted to entrapment are also
examined. After a survey of the peace settlement of 1815, the book
concludes with a masterly chapter reviewing the whole story of the
1815 campaign.
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