had regrouped after their defeat at Ligny and were marching toward Waterloo. The next morning the Battle of Wavre ended in a hollow French victory. Grouchy's...
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of Ligny. The Prussians successfully disengaged and withdrew north to Wavre where they regrouped, and later advanced westward with three corps to attack...
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Hundred Days: Waterloo campaign 500km 300miles Rochefort 7 6: Waterloo 5 4 3 Paris 2 Elba 1 The Battle of Waterloo (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋaːtərloː]...
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Hundred Days: Waterloo campaign 500km 300miles Rochefort 7 Waterloo 6 5 4 3 Paris 2 Elba 1 The Battle of Wavre was the final major military action...
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Hundred Days: Waterloo campaign 500km 300miles Rochefort 7 Waterloo 6 5 4 3 Paris 2 Elba 1 The Battle of Ligny, in which French troops of the Armée...
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that the Prussians had retreated towards Wavre, that the French occupied the ground on which the Battle of Ligny had been fought; but that they had not...
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William Hyde (1905), The battle of Wavre and Grouchy's retreat : a study of an obscure part of the Waterloo campaign, London: J. Murray, pp. 138–139 Lennox...
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The Waterloo campaign commenced with a pre-emptive attack by the French Army of the North under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte. The first elements...
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Battle of Quatre Bras (category Waterloo campaign)
Hundred Days: Waterloo campaign 500km 300miles Rochefort 7 Waterloo 6 5 4 3 Paris 2 Elba 1 The Battle of Quatre Bras was fought on 16 June 1815, as...
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Hundred Days (redirect from 1815 campaign)
Grouchy left Wavre and started a long retreat back to Paris. After the defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon chose not to remain with the army and attempt to rally it...
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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (section Campaigns)
Montmartre 1815: Lower Rhine (Battle of Ligny), Battle of Waterloo His campaign journal covering the years 1793 to 1794 was published in 1796: Kampagne-Journal...
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successful at Ligny, and were forced to retreat to Wavre. Hearing of Blücher's defeat on the morning of 17 June, Wellington ordered his army to withdraw on...
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Prussians at Ligny, and Marshal Ney engaging indecisively with Wellington at the Battle of Quatre Bras. The Prussians retreated 18 miles north to Wavre whilst...
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Michel Ney (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
at Ligny. Although Ney was criticized for not capturing Quatre Bras early, there is still debate as to what time Napoleon actually ordered Ney to capture...
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Battle of Ligny and the Battle of Wavre during the Waterloo campaign in 1815. An army led personally by Napoleon defeated the Prussians at Ligny (south of...
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Ligny was won, Napoleon attempted to do the same to the British-Allied force (British, Dutch, and Hanoverian) located just to the south of Waterloo....
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War of the Sixth Coalition (redirect from 1813 campaign in Saxony)
Napoleonic Wars 1000km 620miles Waterloo 9 France 8 7 Russia 6 Austria 5 Spain 4 Portugal 3 Prussia 2 Germany 1 In the War of the Sixth Coalition (French:...
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James Hay, Lord Hay (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
of the war in France and Belgium, in 1815: Containing minute details of the battles of Quatre-Bras, Ligny, Wavre, and Waterloo. Lea & Blanchard, 1845....
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Napoleonic Wars (redirect from Napoleonic Campaigns)
464–498. Hofschroer, Peter (2006). The Waterloo Campaign: Wellington, His German Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras. "Napoleonic Wars | Summary...
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War of the Fourth Coalition (redirect from Prussian Campaign)
Napoleonic Wars 1000km 620miles Waterloo 9 France 8 7 Russia 6 Austria 5 Spain 4 Portugal 3 Prussia 2 Germany 1 The War of the Fourth Coalition (French:...
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Peninsular War (redirect from Spanish Campaign)
George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1108054096. Smith, Digby (1998)...
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Sixth Coalition: German campaign 200km 125miles 19 18 17 Leipzig 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The German campaign (German: Befreiungskriege...
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Jean-de-Dieu Soult (section Hundred Days and Waterloo)
during the Hundred Days. He was Napoleon's chief of staff during the Waterloo campaign in 1815, where the emperor suffered a final defeat. Following the...
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the Russian campaign. Allowed to retire by the restored Bourbon regime, he died of unnatural causes shortly before the Battle of Waterloo. Berthier's...
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Attrition warfare against Napoleon (category Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars)
Papelotte. Papelotte also commanded the road to Wavre that the Prussians would use to send reinforcements to Wellington's position. In front of the rest...
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Napoleon (section First Italian campaign)
engagements at the Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, Napoleon confronted Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June. Wellington's army...
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see orders of battle from Quatre-Bras, Ligny, Order of Battle of the Waterloo Campaign, and statistics related to road safety from IBSR [1]. "Belgium: Regions...
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Battle of Austerlitz (redirect from Austerlitz campaign)
Walter Phelps; Davis, William Sterns (1957). The Course of Europe Since Waterloo (4th ed.). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. Jorgensen, C. (2004). The...
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Chastel's 10th Cavalry Division. During the Waterloo Campaign, the corps fought in the battles of Ligny and Wavre. In the final operations around Paris, he...
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War of the Third Coalition (section Ulm campaign)
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