May 8th, 2009
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| Milites Gregarius
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Originally Posted by perseus | i think you would like the Book 100 Decsive Battles, Waterloo is in it, yes Napolean was ill at the time, but he was still aware of teh situation bc well it is Napolean and he had at times shown he like to micromanage lol. Still he held back the Old Guard(his best troops) and didnt push them forward because he wanted to use them for the killing blow instead. But yes he was ill. The reason the British and allied infantry werent really hit by the artillary was because he placed them behind the ridge were the artillary and Napolean didn't see them. This protected them and then when the old guard did finally rush in at the battle's end, Wellington brought up his troops and showed his full force, and let the French have a full muskett volly from all his troops not just the forward line. |
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