Description
Product ID: | 9780753541449 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | 24 Hours at Waterloo |
Subtitle: | 18 June 1815 |
Authors: | Author: Robert Kershaw |
Page Count: | 448 |
Subjects: | Military history, Military history, Belgium, c 1800 to c 1900 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating In March 1815, the Allies declared war on Napoleon in response to his escape from exile and the renewed threat to imperial European rule. Three months later, on 18 June 1815, having suffered considerable losses at Quatre-Bras, Wellington's army fell back on Waterloo, some ten miles south of Brussels. ‘One of the lancers rode by, and stabbed me in the back with his lance. I then turned, and lay with my face upward, and a foot soldier stabbed me with his sword as he walked by. Immediately after, another, with his firelock and bayonet, gave me a terrible plunge, and while doing it with all his might, exclaimed, “Sacré nom de Dieu!” ’ |
Imprint Name: | W H Allen |
Publisher Name: | Ebury Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-06-04 |