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Hilaire Belloc. Waterloo
Waterloo
Table of Contents
I
THE POLITICAL OBJECT AND EFFECT OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN
II
THE PRELIMINARIES: NAPOLEON’S ADVANCE ACROSS THE SAMBRE
The Advance
III
THE DECISIVE DAY
Friday the 16th of June. Quatre Bras and Ligny
LIGNY
Quatre Bras
IV
THE ALLIED RETREAT AND FRENCH ADVANCE UPON WATERLOO AND WAVRE
V
THE ACTION
The First Part of the Action
The Second Part of the Action
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Hilaire Belloc
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The western or right-hand part of the line, Dutch, German, Belgian, and British, acting under Wellington, depended, upon the contrary, upon the North Sea, and upon communication across that sea with England. That is, it drew its supplies and the necessaries of its existence from the west, the opposite and contrary direction from that to which the Prussian half of the Allies were looking for theirs. The effect of this upon the campaign is at once simple to perceive and of capital importance in Napoleon’s plan.
Wellington and Blucher did not, under the circumstances, oppose to Napoleon a single body drawing its life from one stream of communications. They did not in combination command a force defending one goal; they commanded two forces defending two goals. The thorough defeat of one would throw it back away from the other if the attack were delivered at the point where the two just joined hands; and the English[1] or western half under Wellington was bound to movements actually contrary to the Prussian or eastern half under Blucher in case either were defeated before the other could come to its aid.
