The rout unhooked the army. Paris could not be a second 1814. St Helena followed. Vienna's final act had its battlefield seal. British: Wellington and the squares. Prussian: Blucher's march. French: mud, Grouchy, and betrayal. All three are in the sources; none is the whole ridge.
Three stories stays dated: 1815-06-18-am (Late start) in Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium. Michel Ney (French marshal) is a named witness -- The cavalry charges and a later execution (1815) made him a romantic ruin. Cost band: about 40,000-50,000 dead and wounded in one day, usual band. Encyclopedia, not a method.
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The rout unhooked the army. Paris could not be a second 1814. St Helena followed. Vienna's final act had its battlefield seal. British: Wellington and the squares. Prussian: Blucher's march. French: mud, Grouchy, and betrayal. All three are in the sources; none is the whole ridge.
Three stories stays dated: 1815-06-18-am (Late start) in Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium. Michel Ney (French marshal) is a named witness -- The cavalry charges and a later execution (1815) made him a romantic ruin. Cost band: about 40,000-50,000 dead and wounded in one day, usual band. Encyclopedia, not a method.
Later British memory stacked Waterloo under the same "national military Sunday" habit that 11 November then dominated. Keep Tourism as afterlife pinned to 1815-06-18 (D'Erlon / cavalry): Failed centre; Ney's charges. Battle of Waterloo remains a 18 June 1815 file in Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium, not a playbook.
It was the last battle, near a newspaper city, with a British-led army. Leipzig was larger and less English. Ligny and Quatre Bras are not optional prefaces. A one-map Waterloo is a lie.
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