Table of Contents
List of Plates and Illustrations ix
List of Maps, Diagrams and Tables xi
Foreword Major General Mungo Melvin xiii
Preface xvii
Prologue xxi
Chapter 31 The Allies 1
Dawn to Midday, 17 June
Chapter 32 Napoleon 17
Morning, 17 June
Chapter 33 Napoleon Pursues Wellington 26
Afternoon to Nightfall, 17 June
Chapter 34 Grouchy and the Prussians 42
Afternoon to Evening, 17 June
Chapter 35 Wellington and the Battleground 54
Overnight, 17/18 June
Chapter 36 Napoleon Plans his Battle 78
First Light to 11.30 a.m., Sunday 18 June 1815
Chapter 37 Battle Commences 102
The Attack on Hougoumont
Chapter 38 The Second Act 111
d'Erlon's Great Attack and its Defeat
Chapter 39 The Third Act 138
The Great Cavalry Attacks
Chapter 40 In Another Part of Brabant 150
Chapter 41 First Signs of the Prussian Advance 165
And Grouchy's Decision
Chapter 42 The Fourth Act 177
La Haye Sainte Falls, The Centre Begins to Crumble
Chapter 43 The Prussian Intervention 198
Bülow, Ziethen, Müffling
Chapter 44 The Fifth Act 207
Climax and Decision
Chapter 45 The Victory 234
The Reckoning
Chapter 46 The Aftermath of Battle 254
The Prussians and Grouchy, 19-20 June
Chapter 47 After the Battle 266
Wellington and his Army, 19-20 June
Chapter 48 France and the Problem of Napoleon 278
Return to Paris, the Abdication, the Danger
Chapter 49 The Allied Advance 287
And the Return of King Louis
Chapter 50 The Fall of Paris 302
And Napoleon's Surrender
Chapter 51 The Settlement of 1815 344
Chapter 52 Retrospect 366
Envoi 391
Notes 395
Appendices
1 Wellington's Waterloo Despatch 470
2 Gneisenau's Report 485
3 Napoleon's Accounts, 1815 & 1820 492
4 Bertrand's Letter of 10 June 1815 501
Orders of Battle
1 Anglo-Allied Army 518
2 Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine 528
3 French Army of the North 535
Sources Consulted 548
Index 564
