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Hooper, George (1862), Waterloo, The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815 (with maps and plans ed.), London: Smith, Elder and Company; Kelly, William Hyde (1905), The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy's Retreat: A Study of an Obscure Part of the Waterloo Campaign, London: J. Murray. (Battle of Wavre)
Waterloo campaign: start of hostilities (15 June) Part of the Waterloo campaign: A portion of Belgium with some places marked in colour to indicate the initial deployments of the armies just before the commencement of hostilities on 15 June 1815: red Anglo-allied, green Prussian, blue French
Waterloo campaign: Waterloo to Paris (25 June – 1 July) Part of The Waterloo campaign: Part of France engraved by J. Kirkwood, showing the invasion routes of the Seventh Coalition armies in 1815. Red: Anglo-allied army; light green: Prussian Army; orange: North German Federal Army; yellow: Army of the Upper Rhine; dark green: Army of Italy.
Waterloo was the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon's last. It was also the second bloodiest single day battle of the Napoleonic Wars, after Borodino. According to Wellington, the battle was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life". [18]
The Hundred Days (French: les Cent-Jours IPA: [le sɑ̃ ʒuʁ]), [3] also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition (French: Guerre de la Septième Coalition), marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 110 days).
6 officers, 168 men, 5 × 6-pdr gun, 1 × 5 + 1 ⁄ 2" howitzer 0 officers, 2 men 1 officer, 12 men none 2nd Rocket (Whinyates') Troop, RHA Captain Edward Charles Whinyates: 7 officers, 195 men, 200 Rockets, 5 × 6-pdr gun, 1 × 5 + 1 ⁄ 2" howizer 0 officers, 3 men officers, 17 men none H (Ramsay's) Troop, RHA Major William Norman Ramsay
Veteran support charity Waterloo Uncovered will carry out a targeted excavation in September after a ‘rare’ discovery in 2022. Archaeological dig at site of Battle of Waterloo to find remains ...
The Battle of Quatre Bras was fought on 16 June 1815, as a preliminary engagement to the decisive Battle of Waterloo that occurred two days later. The battle took place near the strategic crossroads of Quatre Bras [a] and was contested between elements of the Duke of Wellington's Anglo-allied army and the left wing of Napoleon Bonaparte's French Armée du Nord under Marshal Michel Ney.