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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles [1] is a history book written by Bernard Cornwell, first published in Great Britain by William Collins on 11 September 2014, and by Harper Collins Publishers on 5 May 2015 in the United States.
Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny. London: Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-12301-1. Doyle, Arthur (1911). A Hundred Years of Conflict: Being Some Records of the Services of Six Generals of the Doyle Family 1756–1856. London: Longmans, Green and Co. OCLC 1477383. Gaudencio, Moises; Burnham, Robert (2021).
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] Napoleon abdicated four days later, and coalition forces entered Paris on 7 ...
In addition to his many novels, including a fictional account (Sharpe's Waterloo) of the battle of Waterloo, Cornwell published a nonfiction book, Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles, released in September 2014, in time for the 200th anniversary of that battle. [22]
Armies at Waterloo: a detailed analysis of the armies that fought history's greatest Battle. Empire Games Press. ISBN 0-913037-02-8. Chalfont, Lord; et al. (1979). Waterloo: Battle of Three Armies. Sidgwick and Jackson. Chandler, David (1981) [1980]. Waterloo: The Hundred Days. Osprey Publishing. Chapuisat, Édouard (1921).
In 1848, Soult declared himself a republican. He died three years later in his castle in Soult-Berg, near Saint-Amans-la-Bastide where he was born, a few days before the coup of 1851. In his honor, the town was renamed Saint-Amans-Soult in December 1851. He is one of the eighteen Marshals of the Empire (out of twenty-six) who belonged to ...
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.
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