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Index
Cover
Title Page
Epigraph
Contents
Compaign Maps
Prologue
Part One – “We’ll See Tomorrow”
1. The Night Before
2. “Who Will Attack the First Tomorrow?”
3. “The Decisive Moment of the Century”
4. The Nature of the Armies
5. The British Army: “The Scum of the Earth”
6. The French Army: “All Must March”
7. The Prussian Army
8. The Minor Armies
9. “As Bad a Night as I Ever Witnessed”
10. On the Brussels Road
11. Letters in the Night
Part Two – “It Will Be as Easy as Having Breakfast”
12. “Very Few of Us Will Live to See the Close of This Day”
13. The Emperor’s Breakfast
14. The Numbers in the Field
15. Wellington’s Deployment
16. Napoleon’s Deployment
17. “Vive l’Empereur”
18. What Is a Battle?
19. Napoleon’s Orders
20. Napoleonic Infantry Tactics
21. The Skirmish Line
22. Hougoumont
23. The Defense of the Château
24. The Bombardment in the Hougoumont Sector
25. The Attack on the North Gate
26. The Grande Batterie
27. News of the Prussians
28. Bülow’s March
29. New Orders for Grouchy
30. La Haye Sainte
31. The First Attack on La Haye Sainte
32. Crabbé’s Charge
33. D’Erlon’s Advance
34. The Attack on the Sunken Lane
35. The Firefight Along the Chemin d’Ohain
36. The Intervention of the British Cavalry
37. The Charge of the Household Brigade
38. The Charge of the Union Brigade
39. Dragoons Against Guns
40. Jacquinot’s Lancers
41. “Tu N’es Pas Mort, Coquin?”
Part Three – “A Stand-up Fight Between Two Pugilists”
42. “It Does Indeed Look Very Bad”
43. Papelotte
44. The Second Attack on La Haye Sainte
45. The Great French Cavalry Attacks Against the Allied Squares
46. “Where Are the Cavalry?”
47. “Vous Verrez Bientôt Sa Force, Messieurs”
48. Blücher Attacks
49. Plancenoit
50. “I’ll Be Damned If We Shan’t Lose This Ground”
51. The Nivelles Road
52. “Infantry! And Where Do You Expect Me to Find Infantry?”
53. The Last Effort to Take Hougoumont
54. The Capture of La Haye Sainte
55. The Advance of the French Artillery
56. The Renewed Attack on Plancenoit
57. Ziethen at Smohain
58. Napoleon’s Last Attack
59. “Voilà Grouchy!”
60. The Imperial Guard’s Advance
61. The Attack of the Imperial Guard Grenadiers
62. “La Garde Recule!”
Part Four – “Victory! Victory!”
63. The Allied Advance
64. The Squares of the Old Guard
65. The Meeting at La Belle Alliance
66. The Prussian Pursuit
67. Night on the Battlefield
68. “A Mass of Dead Bodies”
69. Letters Home
70. “I Never Wish to See Another Battle”
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Illustrations
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