Sergeant David Robertson At Quatre Bras, he was given orders directly by Wellington and at Waterloo found himself twice in the front line at critical moments of the battle. At 2pm, Robertson and ...
This month marks the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in present day Belgium by a military alliance commanded by the Duke of Wellington. A ceremony ...
The Duke of Wellington's legacy still towers over British history today. The hero of Waterloo, vanquisher of Napoleon – poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson hailed him as the 'last great Englishman'.
His battle plan was simple. Wellington’s men occupied the outlying farm buildings on both flanks, and the crest of a ridge in the center near the village of Waterloo. To break them, Napoleon ...
Wellington may well have been correct when he noted that the Battle of Waterloo had been “the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life,” but the tides of history had been turning long ...
Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815 and Our Boys respectively. The winners emerged from a strong shortlist of authors writing on military history. At the award ceremony the winning authors were given the ...
Wellington stands between Napoleon with a makeshift ... An allied victory could bring long term peace to Europe. The two meet at Waterloo where the fate of Europe will be decided.