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- Title
- A desperate business : Wellington, the British Army and the Waterloo campaign / Ian Fletcher.
- Author
- Fletcher, Ian, 1957-
- Publication
- Staplehurst : Spellmount, 2001.
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- Description
- 192 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 28 cm.
- Summary
- A 'desperate business' was how the Duke of Wellington described the Battle of Waterloo following the Allied victory there on 18 June 1815. Here, historian Ian Fletcher tells the story of the Waterloo Campaign and illustrates just how desperate the battle was, with Wellington's Anglo-Dutch army hanging on grimly to the ridge at Mont St Jean until their Prussian allies arrived to put the seal on one of the most decisive victories in military history. A Desperate Business differs from many of the books on Waterloo for two reasons; first, it tells the story, not only of the three days' battle from 15 to 18 June, but of the entire campaign, from its beginning in March 1815, right up to the Allie's entrance into Paris three months later. Second, whilst acknowledging the part played by their Dutch-Belgian, Hanoverian and Prussian allies, it sets out to tell the story from the point of view of Wellington and the British Army only. Making extensive use of eye-witness accounts, the book examines how the British Army, a pale shadow of that which had served in the Peninsula, fared against the French Army in what was the first and only encounter between the two great commanders of the age, Wellington and Napoleon.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Maps on liner paper.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 1862271186
- OCLC
- 46432962
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library