Waterloo Relics

By: GILLES BERNARD

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Hardcover | 1 March 2011

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Waterloo, the plain where Napoleon's Empire was dealt its final blow after a titanic fight, is not only a name on the map. La Haye-Sainte, Hougoumont, Plancenoit, are real places where men struggled, suffered and died.

In this book, the authors retrace the phases of the famous battle. But moreover, they lead the reader deep into history by showing the artifacts, weapons, uniforms and pieces of equipment that have survived after more than two centuries.

From Napoleon's hat to Wellington's pad, from a simple uniform button to a rusted bayonet found on the very ground of the battlefield, these fabulous relics help us revisit the day of June 18th 1815.

Packed with dozens of color images of uniforms and equipment.

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Introduction	p. 3
A Mecca for Remembrance	p. 4
The High and Mighty English	p. 5
An Inexhaustible Subject	p. 9
Napoleon	p. 14
Venerated Objects	p. 15
The Emperor Touched Them	p. 17
A Palace at le Caillou	p. 19
Major von Keller's Good Luck	p. 21
The Fruit of All This Looting	p. 25
The Clashes on 16 June	p. 29
Ligny: the Bloody Fray	p. 30
The Old Hussar in Jeopardy	p. 34
Silent Witnesses	p. 36
At the Quatre-Bras Crossroads	p. 37
Empire or Monarchy	p. 39
The Seeds of Terrible Moments	p. 40
On the Brussels Road	p. 42
The French Join Battle	p. 43
The Iron Duke	p. 44
A Bonaparte in the Battle	p. 46
Courage Unrewarded	p. 47
Vanquished but with Honour	p. 52
The Guards at their Posts	p. 53
The Well with a Legend	p. 57
Drouet D'Erlon's Attack	p. 58
Human Tide	p. 59
Top Hats and Red Coats	p. 60
"Scotland Forever"	p. 63
Somerset's Boilermakers	p. 65
The Wrecks on the Ebb	p. 69
Ney' Battle	p. 70
The German Farm	p. 61
The Clash of Four Thousand Cuirassiers	p. 73
What Superb Horsemen	p. 78
The Stricken Mounts	p. 82
Wellington's Squares	p. 84
Several Masters, only one Destiny	p. 88
The Prussians are Coming	p. 90
The Fight at La Papelotte - In Vain	p. 91
They got us to Manoeuvre like Pumpkins	p. 94
The Young Guard's Fate	p. 96
A Fusilier Called Vadurel	p. 99
Where is Grouchy?	p. 100
The Final Outcome	p. 101
"Long Live the Emperor!"	p. 104
His Lordship Raised His Hat	p. 107
The Flight of the Eagle	p. 109
On the Roads after the Rout	p. 110
Lord Uxbridge's Leg	p. 114
A Predestined Name	p. 116
In Waterloo's Earth	p. 118
In the Shadow of the Butte du Lion	p. 119
The Waterloo Buttons: the Imperial Army's Last Parade	p. 120
History's Harvest	p. 121
The Humble treasures Belonging to the Fallen	p. 122
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