Waterloo 1815 3

Author : John Franklin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472804136

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Waterloo 1815 (3) by John Franklin Pdf

Waterloo is one of the defining campaigns of European history. The name conjures up images of the terrible scale and grandeur of the Napoleonic Wars and the incredible combined effort that finally ended Napoleon's aspirations of power in Europe. Drawn from unpublished first-hand accounts, and using detailed illustrations, this comprehensive volume is the ideal resource for studying the intense fighting at the battles of Waterloo and Wavre, the final, decisive engagements of the Waterloo campaign. Those two battles are at the heart of this study, which explores the action at Mont St Jean where Wellington managed to hold the French at bay until the arrival of the Prussians under Blücher saw the Allies secure a hard-fought victory at the dramatic climax of the 'Hundred days'.

Author : John Franklin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472803689

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Waterloo 1815 (2) by John Franklin Pdf

This title represents the second instalment of the captivating study of the Waterloo campaign, one of the defining events in European history. In particular it focuses on the desperate struggle for Ligny, which saw the Prussians pushed back by the French Army after heavy fighting in what was to be Napoleon's last battlefield victory. With Wellington unable to assist his Prussian allies in time, the Prussian centre was overwhelmed as night began to fall, although the flanks were able to retreat in some semblance of order. Stunning illustrations augment the drama of the fighting in this area while considerable new research drawn from unpublished first-hand accounts provide a detailed and engaging resource for all aspects of the battle.

Author : Paul L. Dawson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526749284

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Battle for Paris 1815 by Paul L. Dawson Pdf

“For anyone seeking a full understanding of the end of the Napoleonic era this book is a must read . . . [a] tour de force of research.” —Clash of Steel On the morning of 3 July 1815, the French General Rémi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, at the head of a brigade of dragoons, fired the last shots in the defense of Paris until the Franco-Prussian War sixty-five years later. Why did he do so? Traditional stories of 1815 end with Waterloo, that fateful day of 18 June, when Napoleon Bonaparte fought and lost his last battle, abdicating his throne on 22 June. But Waterloo was not the end; it was the beginning of a new and untold story. Seldom studied in French histories and virtually ignored by English writers, the French Army fought on after Waterloo. Many commanders sought to reverse that defeat—at Versailles, Sevres, Rocquencourt, and La Souffel, the last great battle and the last French victory of the Napoleonic Wars. Marshal Grouchy, much maligned, fought his army back to Paris by 29 June, with the Prussians hard on his heels. On 1 July, Vandamme, Exelmans and Marshal Davout began the defense of Paris. Davout took to the field in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris along with regiments of the Imperial Guard and battalions of National Guards. For the first time ever, using the wealth of material held in the French Army archives in Paris, along with eyewitness testimonies from those who were there, Paul Dawson brings alive the bitter and desperate fighting in defense of the French capital. The 100 Days Campaign did not end at Waterloo, it ended under the walls of Paris fifteen days later.

Author : Charles Dalton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
ISBN : OXFORD:590281510

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The Waterloo Roll Call by Charles Dalton Pdf

Author : George Hooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
ISBN : UOM:39015010403825

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Waterloo: the Downfall of the First Napoleon by George Hooper Pdf

Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752468587

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Battle Story: Waterloo 1815 by Gregory Fremont-Barnes Pdf

The Battle of Waterloo is one of the most important moments in military history. As the might of the French Empire under the leadership of the Emperor Napoleon faced the Coalition army under Duke of Wellington and Gerhard von Blucher for one last time. The battle saw the culmination of a long campaign to destroy Napoleon's forces and halt the growth of the French Empire. Both sides fought bitterly and Wellington later remarked that 'it was the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life'. Both armies lost over 20,000 men on the battlefield that day, but it was the coalition that emerged victorious in the end. Wellington's army counter-attacked and threw the French troops into disarray as they fled from the field. The coalition forces entered France and restored Louis XVIII to the throne and Napoleon was exiled to the island of Saint Helena, where he later died. Waterloo was a resounding victory for the British Army and changed the course of European history. This Battle Story tells you everything you need to know about his critical battle.

Author : Geoffrey Wootten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846035975

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Waterloo 1815 by Geoffrey Wootten Pdf

Waterloo holds a special place among the great battles of history. The climax of more than twenty years of war, it was indeed a close-run affair, matching two of the world's greatest generals Napoleon and Wellington. This volume covers the entire campaign including the battles of Quatre Bras, Ligny and Wavre, with five full-colour maps and three highly detailed bird's eye views showing decisive moments in the action. An excellent sense of the closeness of the battle is communicated Wellington himself claimed it was "the nearest thing you ever saw in your life" and this gripping account shows the full justice of that statement.

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062312075

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Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell Pdf

#1 Bestseller in the U.K. From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand. On June 18, 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. In the previous three days, the French army had beaten the Prussians at Ligny and fought the British to a standstill at Quatre-Bras. The Allies were in retreat. The little village north of where they turned to fight the French army was called Waterloo. The blood-soaked battle to which it gave its name would become a landmark in European history. In his first work of nonfiction, Bernard Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting chronicle of every dramatic moment, from Napoleon’s daring escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the three battlefields and their aftermath. Through quotes from the letters and diaries of Emperor Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, and the ordinary officers and soldiers, he brings to life how it actually felt to fight those famous battles—as well as the moments of amazing bravery on both sides that left the actual outcome hanging in the balance until the bitter end. Published to coincide with the battle’s bicentennial in 2015, Waterloo is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy—and of the final battle that determined the fate of nineteenth-century Europe.

Author : William Seymour,Jacques Pierre Champagne,E. Kaulbach,Arthur Gwynne Jones Baron Chalfont,Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones Baron Chalfont
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008783717

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Waterloo by William Seymour,Jacques Pierre Champagne,E. Kaulbach,Arthur Gwynne Jones Baron Chalfont,Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones Baron Chalfont Pdf

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Author : John Grehan
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783831999

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Voices from the Past: Waterloo 1815 by John Grehan Pdf

For more than twenty years Europe had been torn apart by war. Dynasties had crumbled, new states had been created and a generation had lost its young men. When it seemed that peace might at last settle across Europe, terrible news was received _ Napoleon had escaped from exile and was marching upon Paris. Europe braced itself once again for war. The allied nations agreed to combine against Napoleon and in May 1815 they began to mass on France's frontiers. The scene was set for the greatest battle the world had yet seen.??Composed of more than 300 eyewitness accounts, official documents, parliamentary debates and newspaper reports, Voices from the Past tells the story of Napoleon's last battles as they were experienced and reported by the men and women involved. ??Heroic cavalry charges, devastating artillery bombardments, terrible injuries, heart-breaking encounters, and amusing anecdotes, written by aristocratic officers and humble privates alike, fill the pages of this ambitious publication. Many of these reports have not been reproduced for almost 200 years.

Author : Henry Houssaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP2GV

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1815, Waterloo by Henry Houssaye Pdf

Author : Charles Cornwallis Chesney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:HWIILQ

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Waterloo Lectures by Charles Cornwallis Chesney Pdf

Author : Paul L. Dawson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526700698

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Napoleon and Grouchy by Paul L. Dawson Pdf

One of the enduring controversies of the Waterloo campaign is the conduct of Marshal Grouchy. Given command of a third of Napoleons army and told to keep the Prussians from joining forces with Wellington, he failed to keep Wellington and Blcher apart with the result that Napoleon was overwhelmed at Waterloo. Grouchy, though, was not defeated. He kept his force together and retreated in good order back to France.Many have accused Grouchy of intentionally holding back his men and not marching to join Napoleon when the sound of the gunfire at Waterloo could clearly be heard, and he has been widely blamed for Napoleons defeat.Now, for the first time, Grouchys conduct during the Waterloo campaign is analyzed in fine detail, drawing principally on French sources not previously available in English. The author, for example, answers questions such as whether key orders did actually exist in 1815 or were they later fabrications to make Grouchy the scapegoat for Napoleons failures? Did General Grard really tell Grouchy to march to the sound of the guns? Why did Grouchy appear to move so slowly when speed was essential?This is a subject which is generally overlooked by British historians, who tend to concentrate on the actions of Wellington and Napoleon, and which French historians choose not to look at too closely for fear that it might reflect badly upon their hero Napoleon.Despite the mass of books written on Waterloo, this is a genuinely unique contribution to this most famous campaign. This book is certain to fuel debate and prompt historians to reconsider the events of June 1815.

Author : William Siborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
ISBN : HARVARD:32044022702583

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The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 by William Siborne Pdf

Author : Peter Hofschröer
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473820562

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Waterloo 1815: Quatre Bras & Ligny by Peter Hofschröer Pdf

The Battle of Waterloo marked the climax of four extraordinary months. Napoleon returned from exile, ousted the unpopular King Louis XVIII, and then turned to launch a pre-emptive strike against the Allied armies assembling in the United Netherlands. Here Napoleon met Wellington who had cobbled together an army with contingents from the British, the United Netherlands and the Prussians, firstly at Quatre Bras and then finally at Waterloo.This is the second book in the series to cover the battle following on from Hougoumont.