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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815, Volume 2
From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe
John Hussey
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815, Volume 2
From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in Europe
John Hussey
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Winner of the 2019 RUSI Duke of Wellington Medal for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer MedalShortlisted for Military History Monthly's "Book of the Year" AwardThe first of two groundbreaking volumes on the Waterloo campaign, this book is based upon a detailed analysis of sources old and new in four languages. It highlights the political stresses between the Allies, and their resolution; it studies the problems of feeding and paying for 250, 000 Allied forces assembling in Belgium during the undeclared war, and how a strategy was thrashed out. It studies the neglected topic of how the slow and discordant Allies beyond the Rhine hampered the plans of Blcher and Wellington, thus allowing Napoleon to snatch the initiative from them. Napoleons operational plan is analyzed (and Soult's mistakes in executing it). Accounts from both sides help provide a vivid impression of the fighting on the first day, 15 June, and the volume ends with the joint battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras the next day.
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Guerras napoleónicasOrders of Battle
I have compiled orders of battle for the three contending armies, as they were assembled in early June before the start of operations. I have used mainly the works of Houssaye, 1898, Couderc, 1902, and De Bas and T’Serclaes de Wommersom (DBTS), 1908, for Napoleon’s army; Lettow-Vorbeck, 1904, and DBTS for Blücher’s army; Siborne, 1848, and DBTS for Wellington’s army. None of them is without slips and uncertainties: Fortescue in 1920 remarked that Siborne’s Waterloo order of battle ‘seems from internal evidence to be imperfect’, and various returns given in WD and WSD also show variations. Fortescue relied principally on Lt.-Colonel W. H. James’s book on the campaign, 1908, which distilled the figures from the above and other sources. A recent and extensive set of orders of battle can be found in Adkin’s Waterloo Companion, 2001, but even that has some small slips, e.g. the King’s Dragoon Guards, and a misprint over Grouchy’s strength at Wavre.
Given these disparities between good authorities, it would be foolish to pretend that my listings are without errors and omissions, and I submit them with due diffidence.
Orders of Battle 1
Anglo-Allied Army
| Commander-in-Chief | Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington | |
| Military Secretary | Lt.-Col. Lord F. Somerset | |
| 5 ADCs; 3 Extra ADCs, | ||
| Adjutant-General | Maj.-Gen. Sir E. Barnes | |
| 11 AAGs; 10 DAAGs | ||
| Deputy QMG | Col. Sir W. H. De Lancey | |
| 17 AQMGs; 12 DAQMGs | ||
| Commandant, Headquarters | Col. Sir C. Campbell | |
| Commanding Artillery | Col. Sir G. Wood | |
| Commanding RHA | Lt.-Col. Sir A. S. Fraser | |
| Commanding Train | Lt.-Col. Sir A. Dickson | |
| I Corps | Gen. The Prince 0f Orange | 25,233 men and 56 guns |
| 1st Division | Maj.-Gen. Cooke | |
| 1st British Brigade | Maj.-Gen. Maitland | |
| 2/1st Guards | 976 | |
| 3/1st Guards | 1,021 | |
| 2nd British Brigade | Maj.-Gen. Sir J. Byng | |
| 2/Coldstream Guards | 1,003 | |
| 2/Scots Guards | 1,061 | |
| Artillery | Lt.-Col. Adye | |
| Capt. Sandham’s British FB | 5 x 9-pdr, 1 x 5.5 inch how. | |
| Maj. Kuhlmann’s HB, KGL | 5 x 9-pdr, 1 x 5.5 inch how. | |
| 3rd Division | Lt.-Gen. Sir C. Alten | |
| 5th British Brigade | Maj.-Gen. Sir Colin Halkett | |
| 2/30th Foot | 615 | |
| 33rd Foot | 561 | |
| 2/69th Foot | 516 | |
| 2/73rd Foot | 562 | |
| 2nd Brigade, KGL | Col. von Ompteda | |
| 1/Light, KGL | 423 | |
| 2/Light, KGL | 337 | |
| 5/Line, KGL | 379 | |
| 8/Line, KGL | 388 | |
| 1st Hanoverian Brigade | Maj.-Gen. Count Kielmansegge | |
| Field Battalion Bremen | 512 | |
| Field Battalion Verden | 533 | |
| Field Battalion York | 507 | |
| Field Battalion Lüneburg | ...||