The Battle of Waterloo: Containing the Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, and Other Relative Documents, with Circumstantial Details, Previous and After the Battle, from a Variety of Authentic and Original Sources : to which is Added an Alphabetical List of the Officers Killed and Wounded, from 15th to 26th June, 1815, and the Total Loss of Each RegimentJ. Booth, 1815 - 98 sivua |
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... Napoleon Buonaparte made the boast , that to - morrow night he would sleep at Lacon , a palace now belonging to the King of Hol- land , about three miles beyond Brussels , in an ele- vated situation , surrounded by beautiful grounds ...
... Napoleon Buonaparte made the boast , that to - morrow night he would sleep at Lacon , a palace now belonging to the King of Hol- land , about three miles beyond Brussels , in an ele- vated situation , surrounded by beautiful grounds ...
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... Napoleon himself , that it was on his part " a day of false manœuvres . " In the mean time it is impossible to describe the panic that the news of this retreat spread at Brussels . Nobody could convince the Belgians that a retreat and a ...
... Napoleon himself , that it was on his part " a day of false manœuvres . " In the mean time it is impossible to describe the panic that the news of this retreat spread at Brussels . Nobody could convince the Belgians that a retreat and a ...
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... Napoleon Buonaparte , himself was popular in Belgium . This was a moment when Hy- pocrisy itself would have found it impossible to dis- semble ; and the dismay which reigned upon every face , and the terror which filled every town and ...
... Napoleon Buonaparte , himself was popular in Belgium . This was a moment when Hy- pocrisy itself would have found it impossible to dis- semble ; and the dismay which reigned upon every face , and the terror which filled every town and ...
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... Napoleon Buonaparte , in his own account of the battle , de- clares he was on the point of leading a general charge of the whole French army against it in per- son , at the very moment when the general charge of the British Army and ...
... Napoleon Buonaparte , in his own account of the battle , de- clares he was on the point of leading a general charge of the whole French army against it in per- son , at the very moment when the general charge of the British Army and ...
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... Napoleon Buonaparte stood in the proud confidence of success , after dispatching a courier to Paris , with intelli- gence , that the battle was won - it was here , a few hours afterwards , when the battle was really won , that Lord ...
... Napoleon Buonaparte stood in the proud confidence of success , after dispatching a courier to Paris , with intelli- gence , that the battle was won - it was here , a few hours afterwards , when the battle was really won , that Lord ...
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Allied Armies arms arrived artillery attack Baron battalion battle of Waterloo Bonaparte brave brigade British Brunswick Brussels Capt Captain cavalry charge Charleroi Colonel column command corps Cuirassiers dead division Duke of Wellington Emperor enemy enemy's engaged English army Ensign Europe F. G. sev fell Field Marshal field of battle fire flank Fleurus force fought France French army Genappe glory heights honour horses Imperial Guard infantry K. G. L. sev killed and wounded King's German Legion Lieut Light Dragoons Ligny Lord Wellington Lordship loss Majesty's Major Marshal Blucher Marshal Grouchy Marshal Prince Blucher military morning Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte night Nivelles numbers o'clock occupied officers Paris Picton pieces of cannon Plate position Prince Regent prisoners Prussian army Quatre Bras regiment retreat road Royal Highness Sambre Sir Thomas Picton soldiers town troops victory village Wavre whole wood
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Sivu 92 - Waterloo, has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty...
Sivu 53 - A victim to the factions which distract my country, and to the enmity of the greatest powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career, and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British people.
Sivu 52 - My political life is terminated, and I proclaim my son under the title of Napoleon II., Emperor of the French.
Sivu 8 - Sainte, as the detachment of the light battalion of the legion which occupied it had expended all its ammunition, and the enemy occupied the only communication there was with them. The enemy repeatedly charged our infantry with his cavalry, but these attacks were uniformly unsuccessful, and they afforded opportunity to our cavalry to charge ; in one of which, Lord E.
Sivu 65 - ... and it was utterly impossible to rally a single corps. The enemy, who perceived this astonishing confusion, immediately attacked with their cavalry, and increased the disorder, and such was the confusion, owing to night coming on, that it was impossible to rally the troops, and point out to them their error. Thus a battle terminated, a day of false manoeuvres rectified, the greatest success ensured for the next day, — all was lost by a moment of panic terror.
Sivu 18 - Prussian columns, so that only two brigades of the 4th corps had arrived at the covered position which was assigned to them. The decisive moment was come ; there was not an instant to be lost. The generals did not suffer it to escape. They resolved immediately to begin the attack with the troops which they had at hand.
Sivu 36 - Chief of the General Staff of the French army; the Count de Bondy, Prefect of the Department of the Seine, being furnished with the full powers of his Excellency, the Marshal Prince of Echmuhl, Commander in Chief of the French army on one side; and MajorGeneral Baron Muffling...
Sivu 61 - Blucher, who was going towards Wavre, where he appeared to wish to take a position. At ten o'clock in the evening, the English army occupied Mount St.
Sivu 20 - ... hurrah ! and an instant after, the town was ours. It was here that, among ma.ny other equipages, the carriage of Napoleon was taken : he had just left it to mount on horseback, and, in his hurry, had forgotten in it his sword and hat.
Sivu 13 - Blucher resolved to give battle ; Lord Wellington having already put in motion, to support him, a strong division of his army, as well as his whole reserve, stationed in the environs of Brussels, and the fourth corps of the Prussian army being also on the point of arriving.