Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume II - From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume II - From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume II - From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe

Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume II - From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe

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Overview

Winner of the 2019 RUSI Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History
Winner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer Medal

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: Blücher’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 authorized 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781784382001
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Publication date: 11/21/2017
Pages: 616
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.30(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

After reading History at Cambridge, John Hussey spent 30 years working for BP around the world including the Congo in the 1960s and Nigeria in the 1970s. He was awarded an OBE in 1971. He has written many articles on British military history, mainly on the Napoleonic and First World Wars, and served as a member of the International Historical Committee for the restoration of the Waterloo Battlefield. He is the author of Malborough: Hero of Blenheim (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004) and is a Fellow of the Royal Historial Society.

Table of Contents

List of Plates and Illustrations ix

List of Maps, Diagrams and Tables xi

Foreword Major General Mungo Melvin xiii

Preface xvii

Prologue xxi

Chapter 31 The Allies 1

Dawn to Midday, 17 June

Chapter 32 Napoleon 17

Morning, 17 June

Chapter 33 Napoleon Pursues Wellington 26

Afternoon to Nightfall, 17 June

Chapter 34 Grouchy and the Prussians 42

Afternoon to Evening, 17 June

Chapter 35 Wellington and the Battleground 54

Overnight, 17/18 June

Chapter 36 Napoleon Plans his Battle 78

First Light to 11.30 a.m., Sunday 18 June 1815

Chapter 37 Battle Commences 102

The Attack on Hougoumont

Chapter 38 The Second Act 111

d'Erlon's Great Attack and its Defeat

Chapter 39 The Third Act 138

The Great Cavalry Attacks

Chapter 40 In Another Part of Brabant 150

Chapter 41 First Signs of the Prussian Advance 165

And Grouchy's Decision

Chapter 42 The Fourth Act 177

La Haye Sainte Falls, The Centre Begins to Crumble

Chapter 43 The Prussian Intervention 198

Bülow, Ziethen, Müffling

Chapter 44 The Fifth Act 207

Climax and Decision

Chapter 45 The Victory 234

The Reckoning

Chapter 46 The Aftermath of Battle 254

The Prussians and Grouchy, 19-20 June

Chapter 47 After the Battle 266

Wellington and his Army, 19-20 June

Chapter 48 France and the Problem of Napoleon 278

Return to Paris, the Abdication, the Danger

Chapter 49 The Allied Advance 287

And the Return of King Louis

Chapter 50 The Fall of Paris 302

And Napoleon's Surrender

Chapter 51 The Settlement of 1815 344

Chapter 52 Retrospect 366

Envoi 391

Notes 395

Appendices

1 Wellington's Waterloo Despatch 470

2 Gneisenau's Report 485

3 Napoleon's Accounts, 1815 & 1820 492

4 Bertrand's Letter of 10 June 1815 501

Orders of Battle

1 Anglo-Allied Army 518

2 Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine 528

3 French Army of the North 535

Sources Consulted 548

Index 564

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