Battle of Waterloo

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Charles Cornwallis Chesney. Battle of Waterloo

Battle of Waterloo

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LECTURE I. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN

LECTURE II. PREPARATIONS FOR THE CAMPAIGN

LECTURE III. EVENTS OF THE 15TH JUNE.—COMMENTS.—SUMMARY

LECTURE IV. EVENTS OP THE 16TH.—COMMENTS.—SUMMARY

LECTURE V. EVENTS OF THE 17TH.—COMMENTS.—SUMMARY

LECTURE VI. EVENTS OF THE 16TH.—COMMENTS.—SUMMARY

LECTURE VII. THE RETREAT OF GROUCHY TO FRANCE.—-COMMENTS. —CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS.—SUMMARY OF THE CAMPAIGN

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Charles Cornwallis Chesney

A Study of Campaign of 1815

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Vamhagen von Ense’s ‘Life of Blücher’ is valuable for its anecdotical details; but is of too popular and sketchy a character to be of much value to the military critic.

Clausewitz’s ‘Campaign of 1815’ deserves particular attention; as well for his personal knowledge of the events, as for two other special reasons. In the first place, Wellington himself deemed this general’s criticisms of sufficient importance to require an elaborate Published answer from his own pen, a compliment he paid no other of his censors. In the second, Clausewitz in his own country stands confessedly at the head of all military theorists; and the great reputation made for him by the genius his writings display, deepens constantly with time. It is a matter of public acknowledgment that the principles which he bequeathed to his countrymen, in his great work ‘On War,’ for the guidance of their action in their next struggle, were acted on fully in the recent contests which have placed Prussia at the head of Germany, and caused her to appear the first military power of the world.

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