Prelude to Waterloo
Quatre Bras
Published on 30. July 2014
223 pages
978-1-4738-3920-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Battle of Quatre Bras was critical to the outcome of the Waterloo campaign - to the victory of the allied armies of Wellington and Bluecher, the defeat of the French and the fall of Napoleon. But it has been overshadowed by the two larger-scale engagements at Ligny and at Waterloo itself. And too often the clash at Quatre Bras has been seen mainly through the eyes of the British and their allies - the viewpoint of the French has been neglected. It is this weakness in the history of the battle that Andrew Field focuses on in this original and highly readable new study. Drawing on French eyewitness recollections and later commentary, he reconstructs the French experience of the battle - and the French interpretation of it. He quotes extensively, and subjects to critical analysis, the conflicting accounts written by Napoleon and his subordinates as they sought justify their decisions and actions at this pivotal moment in the campaign.
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Andrew W. Field
Prelude to Waterloo: Quatre Bras
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Content
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Plates
- Introduction
- 1. Setting the Scene
- 2. Napoleon, Ney and Soult
- 3. Initial Moves - 13 and 14 June
- 4. Morning, 15 June
- 5. Afternoon, 15 June
- 6. Morning, 16 June
- 7. Afternoon, 16 June - Preliminaries
- 8. The Initial French Attack
- 9. The Allied Crisis
- 10. The First Allied Reinforcements Arrive
- 11. The Main French Attack
- 12. 'Like a Pack of Hungry Wolves' - Kellerman's Charge
- 13. 'We felt abandoned' - The Allied Counter-Attack
- 14. Order, Counter-Order, Disorder
- 15. Evening
- 16. Analysis of the Battle
- 17. The Morning of the 17th
- 18. Summary and Conclusions
- Appendix 1: Orders of Battle
- Appendix 2: A Quick Visit to the Battlefield
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
