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THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO
SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME.
AN ATLAS OF
THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO.
By JOHN CODMAN ROPES.
Designed to accompany the author’s “Campaign of Waterloo; a Military History.”
Price, $5.00 net.
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS,
Publishers, New York.
A MILITARY HISTORY
Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts,and the Harvard Historical Society; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciencesand the Royal Historical Society; Honorary Member of the United States CavalryAssociation, etc. Author of “The Army under Pope,” in the ScribnerSeries of “Campaigns of the Civil War”; “The FirstNapoleon, a Sketch, Political and Military,” etc.
THIRD EDITION.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1893
COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS.
The need of another narrative of the campaign of Waterloo may not beat first sight apparent. There has been a great deal written on thissubject, and much of it has been written by eminent hands. The lastand the most unfortunate campaign of the great soldier of modern timeshas naturally attracted the repeated attention of military historians.Jomini, Clausewitz, Charras, Siborne, Kennedy, Chesney, Vaudoncourt,La Tour d’Auvergne, Thiers, Hooper, and many others have sought toexplain the almost inexplicable result,—the complete defeat in a verybrief campaign of the acknowledged master of modern warfare. One wouldsuppose that the theme had been exhausted, and that nothing moreremained to be said.
But several circumstances have contributed to render the labors ofthese writers unusually difficult. In the first place, the overthrowof Napoleon, which was the immediate result of the campaign, operatedto prevent a satisfactory account of it being given to the publicfrom the French point of view at the time when the facts were freshin men’s minds. The Emperor, exiled at St. Helena, could indeed givehis story; but, unable, as he was, to verify or