Apart of the text… those Squares looks Superb!
"In many ways Waterloo was an aberration, an unexpected coda to a war that had seemingly reached a decisive climax the year before. Napoleon had been defeated and dispatched to his exile on Elba. Europe was rid of the Corsican ogre. The Russian, Austrian and Prussian monarchs would put a stop to Jacobin excess. Britain would be free to reap the profits of its maritime and economic power, its strategy of limited continental liability vindicated. France would strive for a settlement between Royalists, Bonapartists, Republicans and Liberals.
The return of Napoleon threw all this in the air. Unlike the slower-burn events of 1789-1792, the 100 Days arose from nothing and demanded urgent answers, with armies mobilised and policy created on the hoof.
It is against this background that the relevance of Waterloo must be determined, for there is something different about the campaign of 1815 that marks it out from what went before.
This essay will examine Waterloo from various perspectives, each of which informs our understanding of how war developed in its aftermath. It will start with a consideration of political freedoms and constraints; it will turn to the determination of strategy; it will review the organisational challenges of the armies; it will examine the impact of technology; and it will then consider the part that the Napoleonic Wars played in the design of modern operational art…"
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Amicalement
Armand
looks at a multi-period building.
