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The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 - William Siborne
William Siborne
The Waterloo Campaign, 1815
EAN 8596547028383
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Table of Contents
Cover
Titlepage
Text
FOOTNOTES:
[5] Omitted in this Fourth Edition.—E.A.
MAPS AND PLANS.
Belgium and Part of France
The Field of Quatre Bras at 3 o'clock P.M., June 16
The Field of Quatre Bras at 9 o'clock P.M., June 16
The Field of Ligny at a quarter past 2 o'clock P.M., June 16
The Field of Ligny at half past 8 o'clock P.M., June 16
The Field of Waterloo at a quarter past 11 o'clock P.M., June 18
[Plan of La Haye Sainte]
[Plan of Hougomont]
[The Field of Waterloo at a quarter to 2 o'clock P.M., June 18]
The Field of Waterloo at a quarter to 8 o'clock P.M., June 18
The Field of Waterloo at five minutes past 8 o'clock P.M., June 18
The Field of Wavre at 4 o'clock P.M., June 18
The Field of Wavre at 4 o'clock A.M., June 19
Part of France, Section I.
Part of France, Section II.
[The Three Plans within brackets have been specially prepared for this Fourth Edition.—E.A.]
PORTRAITS.
The Duke of Wellington
Engraved from a Medallion by E.W. Wyon
The reverse
From a Medal by J. Henning, Esq.
Prince Blücher von Wahlstadt
From a Medal struck in honour of the Prince
by the citizens of Berlin
The reverse
From a Medallion by W. Foster, Esq.
Napoleon Buonaparte
The Prince of Orange
The Duke of Brunswick
Sir Thomas Picton
Count Sir Charles Alten
Lord Hill
Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia
The Marquess of Anglesey
Marshal Ney, Prince of the Moskwa
HISTORY
OF THE
WAR IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM IN 1815.
CHAPTER I.
THE history of Europe records but few events so universally and so intimately involving the policy and interests of her component States, as the escape of Napoleon Buonaparte from the island of Elba, on the 26th of February 1815—his landing in France, and his again ascending, unopposed, that throne from which Louis XVIII. had fled with precipitation, upon learning the triumphal approach towards the capital of his successful and formidable rival. With the rapidity of lightning the intelligence spread itself over the whole Continent, and with all the suddenness and violence of an electric shock did it burst amidst the delegates from the different States, who were then asembled in Congress at Vienna. This important Assembly, so unexpectedly interrupted, had been called together to deliberate upon measures of international security and prosperity; and to solve those intricate questions of policy necessarily arising out of the various combinations, which, in the course of a general War, carried on with unmitigated violence, and but little intermission, for nearly a quarter of a century, had so fatally unhinged and dismembered the previously existing social order and polity of Europe. With one accord, a fresh appeal to the sword was decided upon; the military resources of every nation were again called into requisition. From State to State the cry To arms!
was responded to with cheerfulness and alacrity, and immense Armies were put in motion towards the French frontier: all animated with the sole object and fixed determination of annihilating, for ever, the common foe whom they had already conquered; but whom, as it would then appear, they had but ineffectually humbled.
The openly declared project of the Allied Sovereigns to employ all their means, and combine all their efforts, towards the accomplishment of the complete overthrow of the resuscitated power of Napoleon, with whom they had determined, thenceforth, to enter into neither truce nor treaty, was singularly favoured by the circumstance of their Armies being still retained upon a war establishment. The forces of the several Powers were continued on that scale, in consequence of the difficulties experienced in the Congress in dealing with and settling many perplexing questions of international policy, and moderating the warmth of the discussions that took place upon them. It was considered expedient to keep up powerful reserves, available both for home service, and for any contingencies that