The Campaign of Waterloo: The Classic Account of Napoleon’s Last Battles

235 Pages·2016·40.042 MB·English

by  Sir John Fortescue

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The Campaign
of Waterloo

The Campaign
of Waterloo
The Classic Account of
Napoleon’s Last Battles
Sir John Fortescue
Frontline Books
The Campaign of Waterloo
A Greenhill Book
Published in 1987 by Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal Limited
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Publishing History
The Campaign of Waterloo by The Hon. J.W. Fortescue was first published
in 1920 by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, as part of Volume X
of A History of the British Army. A revised edition was published by
Greenhill Books in 1987 with additional maps and charts from Napoleon
by Theodore Ayrault Dodge (Hay and Bird, 1907), and a new index. It is
reproduced here from the Greenhill edition.
Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
PAGE
The situation after the peace of I 8 14 . - 19
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Reductions in the Army 20
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Factious criticism of the Opposition in Parliament 21
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Liverpool's difficulties with his supporters 22
RENEWAOLF HOSTILITIES-CAMPAIGINN T HE LOWC OUNTRIES
Napoleon's escape from Elba and entry into Paris . . 22
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Collapse of all royalist resistance to him 23
The Plenipotentiaries at Vienna declare Napoleon outlawed . 23
They agree upon the contingents to be placed in the field . 24
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Wellington returns from Vienna to the Netherlands 24
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The wretched British army that awaited him 26
The question "Are we at peace or at war?" . 26
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Legal obstacles delay the calling out of the Militia 26-7
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The Opposition responsible chiefly for this 28
The question of peace or war a real difficulty . . 28-9
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Wellington's army; its weakness in artillery . 29
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The German Legion and Hanoverian Militia 30
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Wellington's complaints of his staff examined 31
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His principal staff-officers and subordinate generals 32
The staff in the Adjutant-general's and Quartermaster-
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general's departments 33
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The Duke of York's readiness to help him 34