Waterloo: A New History of the Battle and Its Armies

479 Pages·2012·2.74 MB·English

by  Corrigan Gordon

WATERLOO
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Also by Gordon Corrigan
Sepoys in the Trenches
Wellington: A Military Life
Mud, Blood and Poppycock
Loos: The Unwanted Battle
Blood, Sweat and Arrogance
The Second World War
A Great and Glorious Adventure
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First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Atlantic Books, an
imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.
Copyright © Gordon Corrigan, 2014
The moral right of Gordon Corrigan to be identified as the
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with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
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Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84887-928-7
E-book ISBN: 978-1-78239-392-4
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84887-929-4
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF MAPS
INTRODUCTION
1 HOW IT ALL BEGAN
2 THE SHEEP WORRIER OF EUROPE IS ON THE
LOOSE
3 THE COMMANDERS
4 THE OFFICERS
5 THE SOLDIERS
6 BATTLE JOINED
7 THE CRISIS APPROACHES
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8 THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE
9 THE DECISION
10 THE END
EPILOGUE
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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ILLUSTRATIONS
SECTION ONE
Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by
Thomas Heaphy, 1813 (© National Portrait Gallery, London)
Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte by Thomas Heaphy, c.1813
(© National Portrait Gallery, London)
Portrait of Field Marshal Prince Gebhard von Blücher by
Henry Alken, 1815 (Courtesy of the Anne S. K. Brown
Military Archive, Brown University Library)
Ligny (© Imogen Corrigan)
Gemioncourt Farm (© Imogen Corrigan)
Tod des Herzog Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig by
Diterich Monten, 1815 (Courtesy of the Anne S. K. Brown
Military Archive, Brown University Library)
Papelotte Farm (© Imogen Corrigan)
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La Haie Sainte (© Imogen Corrigan)
The Battle of Waterloo, published by Richard Holmes Laurie,
1819 (Courtesy of the Anne S. K. Brown Military Archive,
Brown University Library)
The Marquis of Anglesey wounded, leading the 7th Light
Hussars by Charles Turner Warren, 1819 (Courtesy of the
Anne S. K. Brown Military Archive, Brown University
Library)
French cavalry charging British Highlanders at Waterloo by
William Heath, 1836 (Courtesy of the Anne S. K. Brown
Military Archive, Brown University Library)
Battle of Waterloo by W. T. Fry, after Denis Dighton, 1815
(Courtesy of the Anne S. K. Brown Military Archive, Brown
University Library)
The Tree of Hougoumont (© Imogen Corrigan)
The French Right Flank (© Imogen Corrigan)
Schlacht bei Waterloo am 18 Juni 1815 by Dunkler, c.1816
(Courtesy of the Anne S. K. Brown Military Archive, Brown
University Library)
SECTION TWO
Le Caillou (© Imogen Corrigan)
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