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The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History / Third Edition — John Codman Ropes

The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History / Third Edition

John Codman Ropes

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  • Book language: English
  • 438 pages

John Codman Ropes's military history traces the 1815 campaign, its armies, commanders, and decisions leading up to the Battle of Waterloo. This third edition offers a detailed study of strategy and tactics in that fateful period. It is worth listening for its clear account of military operations and the choices made in the field.

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THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO

SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME.
AN ATLAS OF
THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO.
By JOHN CODMAN ROPES.
Designed to accompany the author’s “Campaign of Waterloo; a
Military History.”
Price, $5.00 net.
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS,
Publishers, New York.

THE CAMPAIGN OF

WATERLOO

A MILITARY HISTORY

BY

JOHN CODMAN ROPES

Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Military Historical

Society of Massachusetts, and the Harvard Historical Society; Fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Historical Society;

Honorary Member of the United States Cavalry Association, etc. Author of

“The Army under Pope,” in the Scribner Series of “Campaigns of the Civil

War”; “The First Napoleon, a Sketch, Political and Military,” etc.

THIRD EDITION.

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

1893

COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS.

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Contents

  1. E-text prepared by Brian Coe, Brian Wilcox, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page
  2. THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO
  3. PREFACE
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. CHAPTER I. THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
  6. CHAPTER II. THE FRENCH ARMY.
  7. CHAPTER III. THE ALLIED ARMIES.
  8. CHAPTER IV. THE FIFTEENTH OF JUNE.—NAPOLEON.
  9. CHAPTER V. THE FIFTEENTH OF JUNE: BLÜCHER AND WELLINGTON.
  10. CHAPTER VI. THE FIFTEENTH OF JUNE: THE DUTCH-BELGIANS.
  11. CHAPTER VII. THE MORNING OF THE SIXTEENTH OF JUNE: WELLINGTON.
  12. CHAPTER VIII. THE MORNING OF THE SIXTEENTH OF JUNE: NEY.
  13. CHAPTER IX. THE MORNING OF THE SIXTEENTH OF JUNE: NAPOLEON.
  14. CHAPTER X. THE BATTLE OF LIGNY. BLÜCHER’S DECISION TO ACCEPT BATTLE NOT DEPENDENT ON WELLINGTON’S ASSURANCE OF SUPPORT.
  15. CHAPTER XI. THE BATTLE OF LIGNY.
  16. CHAPTER XII. THE BATTLE OF QUATRE BRAS.
  17. CHAPTER XIII. THE SEVENTEENTH OF JUNE: NAPOLEON.
  18. CHAPTER XIV. THE SEVENTEENTH OF JUNE: BLÜCHER AND WELLINGTON.
  19. CHAPTER XV. THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE: GROUCHY AND BLÜCHER.
  20. CHAPTER XVI. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
  21. CHAPTER XVII. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS.
  22. APPENDIX A. ON SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF NAPOLEON’S MEMOIRS.
  23. APPENDIX B. ON MARSHAL GROUCHY AND THE BERTRAND ORDER.
  24. APPENDIX C.
  25. FOOTNOTES:
  26. INDEX.
  27. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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