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: Dawn to Midday, 17 June 1
Chapter 32 Napoleon: Morning, 17 June 17
Chapter 33 Napoleon Pursues Wellington: Afternoon to Nightfall, 17 June 26
Chapter 34 Grouchy and the Prussians: Afternoon to Evening, 17 June 42
Chapter 35 Wellington and the Battleground: Overnight, 17/18 June 54
Chapter 36 Napoleon Plans his Battle: First Light to 11.30 a.m., Sunday 18 June 1815 78
Chapter 37 Battle Commences: The Attack on Hougoumont 102
Chapter 38 The Second Act: d'Erlon's Great Attack and its Defeat 111
Chapter 39 The Third Act: The Great Cavalry Attacks 138
Chapter 40 In Another Part of Brabant 150
Chapter 41 First Signs of the Prussian Advance: And Grouchy's Decision 165
Chapter 42 The Fourth Act: La Haye Sainte Falls, The Centre Begins to Crumble 177
Chapter 43 The Prussian Intervention: Bülow, Ziethen, Müffling 198
Chapter 44 The Fifth Act: Climax and Decision 207
Chapter 45 The Victory: The Reckoning 234
Chapter 46 The Aftermath of Battle: The Prussians and Grouchy, 19-20 June 254
Chapter 47 After the Battle: Wellington and his Army, 19-20 June 266
Chapter 48 France and the Problem of Napoleon: Return to Paris, the Abdication, the Danger 278
Chapter 49 The Allied Advance: And the Return of King Louis 287
Chapter 50 The Fall of Paris: And Napoleon's Surrender 302
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
