The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy's Retreat / A study of an Obscure Part of the Waterloo Campaign
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The Battle of Wavre - ten miles from Waterloo - may have sealed Napoleon's fate. The dazzling magnitude of the great battle of Waterloo itself has obscured a part of the campaign which is seldom studied - the battle against Thielemann, and Grouchy's skilful retreat from Wavre. This classic account serves useful lessons because the operations leading up to the battle around Wavre are of great interest; and because a campaign full of mistakes should be studied as carefully as a campaign free from error. The long struggle of the Napoleonic wars famously culminated in the Battle of Waterloo. Undou...
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- E-text prepared by Brian Coe, Wayne Hammond, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
- THE BATTLE OF WAVRE AND GROUCHY’S RETREAT
- THE BATTLE OF WAVRE AND GROUCHY’S RETREAT A STUDY OF AN OBSCURE PART OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN By W. HYDE KELLY, R.E. WITH MAPS AND PLANS LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1905
- AUTHOR’S PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- MAPS
- THE BATTLE OF WAVRE AND GROUCHY’S RETREAT
- CHAPTER I BRIEF DISCUSSION OF THE EARLIER OPERATIONS—UP TO LIGNY
- Composition of the French Army.
- The First Movements of the French.
- The 15th of June on the side of the Allies.
- Movements on the 16th.
- CHAPTER II THE THIRD PRUSSIAN CORPS AND GROUCHY’S FORCES
- RESERVE CAVALRY—General Hobe.
- SUMMARY.
- SUMMARY OF GROUCHY’S FORCES.
- CHAPTER III THE RETREAT OF THIELEMANN’S CORPS FROM SOMBREFFE
- CHAPTER IV GROUCHY’S PURSUIT OF THE PRUSSIANS
- CHAPTER V BLUCHER MARCHES TOWARDS MONT ST JEAN WITH THE FIRST, SECOND, AND FOURTH CORPS
- CHAPTER VI THIELEMANN’S INSTRUCTIONS AND HIS DISPOSITIONS AT WAVRE
- CHAPTER VII THE BATTLE OF WAVRE
- CHAPTER VIII GROUCHY’S RETREAT
- CHAPTER IX NOTES AND COMMENTS
- FOOTNOTES:
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