The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military HistoryScribner's, 1893 - 401 pagina's |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
1st Corps 2d Corps 6th Corps advance Amand Anglo-Dutch arrived artillery attack battalions battle of Ligny battle of Waterloo Braine-le-Comte bridge of Moustier brigade Brussels Bruxelles Brye Bülow campaign cavalry certainly Charleroi Charras Chesney chief-of-staff Clausewitz Colonel column command Comte concentration Corresp d'Erlon despatch direction Disposition division Duke of Wellington Dutch-Belgian Dyle Emperor enemy enemy's English Exelmans expected fact fight Fleurus force Frasnes French army front Gembloux Genappe général Gérard Gneisenau Gosselies Grouchy's guns headquarters heures Heymès Hougomont IId Corps Imperial Guard Inéd infantry intending Jomini June l'armée l'empereur letter main army Maréchal Marshal Blücher Marshal Grouchy Marshal Ney Maurice miles morning movement Müffling Namur Napoleon Ney's Nivelles numbered o'clock occupied officer Ollech ordres Ottignies Pajol Paris position Prussian army Quatre Bras regiments Reille retire retreat road Sambre says sent Siborne Sombreffe Soult statement tion Tour d'Auvergne troops turnpike Vandamme Wavre
Populaire passages
Pagina 373 - Bulow, upon the enemy's flank, was a most decisive one ; and even if I had not found myself in a situation to make the attack, which produced the final result, it would have forced the enemy to retire, if his attacks should have failed, and would have prevented him from taking advantage of them, if they should unfortunately have succeeded.
Pagina 372 - I did not hear of these events till in the evening of the 15th, and I immediately ordered the troops to prepare to march, and afterwards to march to their left, as soon as I had intelligence from other quarters to prove that the enemy's movement upon Charleroi was the real attack.
Pagina 373 - I have ordered the army to concentrate at Quatre Bras ; but we shall not stop him there, and if so, I must fight him here" (at the same time passing his thumbnail over the position of Waterloo).
Pagina 362 - Les Saxons, les Belges, les Hanovriens, les soldats de la confédération du Rhin, gémissent d'être obligés de prêter leurs bras à la cause de princes ennemis de la justice et des droits de tous les peuples.
Pagina xxxviii - HOOPER'S (G.) Waterloo : The Downfall of the First Napoleon : a History of the Campaign of 1815.
Pagina xxxiii - History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons, Edinburgh, 1833-1842; 10th ed., 14 vols, Edinburgh and London, 1861; German, by Mayer, 6 vols., Lps., 1842-1846; also transl.
Pagina xxxiv - Waterloo Lectures : a Study of the Campaign of 1815. By Colonel CHARLES C. CHESNEY, RE late Professor of Military Art and History in the Staff College. Second Edition. 8vo. with Map, 10s. Gd. The Military Resources of Prussia and France, and Recent Changes in the Art of War.
Pagina 372 - MY LORD, Buonaparte having collected the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 6th corps of the French army and the Imperial Guards , and nearly all the cavalry on the Sambre, and between that river and the Meuse, between the 10th and 14th of the month, advanced on the 15th, and attacked the Prussian posts at Thuin and Lobez, on the Sambre, at daylight in the morning. I did not hear of these events till the evening of the 15th, and I immediately ordered the troops to prepare to march...
Pagina 241 - Waterloo, I was not a little disgusted, on getting there, to find that the old fellow's tent was two miles still farther off ! However, I saw him, got the information I wanted from him, and made the best of my way homewards. Bad, however, was the best ; for, by Jove ! it was so dark that I fell into a deepish dyke by the roadside ; and, if it had not been for my orderly's assistance, I doubt if I should ever have got out Thank God, there was no harm done, either to horse or man.
Pagina 372 - Bruxelles; and, on the same evening, the 15th, attacked a brigade of the army of the Netherlands, under the Prince de Weimar, posted at Frasne, and forced it back to the farmhouse, on the same road, called Les Quatre Bras.