"The Battle of Wavre - June 18-19, 1815" Topic

"On June 17, 1815, the day after the Battle of Ligny, Napoleon issued an order to Marshal Grouchy:
"Mr. Marshal, march with the corps of Generals Pajol and Exelmans, the light cavalry of the IV. Corps, the Teste Division and the III. and IV. Infantry Corps to Gembloux. Let the direction on Namur and Maastricht clear and pursue the enemy. Find the enemy's march and report their movements to me so that I can understand what they are really up to … It is important to investigate the intentions of Blucher and Wellington, and especially whether they are willing to control their armies reunite to un Brussels"…"
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Amicalement
Armand

WHERE IS GROUCHY !!!

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Another day in 1815, another Prussian defeat.

The Germans were the reason for Napoleons defeat in the Waterloo campaign.

I guess it was a defeat- but it was pretty hard fought and made it much harder for Grouchy to intervene meaningfully at Waterloo. I think you're being too hard on the Prussians Cuirassier- in the overall context of the campaign it was very useful for the allies. Just my view.
Dogtail- it's hard to know what to say to your comment. I presume that it was just made in humour- as you must know that there was very much more involved than that.

This forum would be much quieter without the "old chestnuts";

Napoleon was only a little chap

The Prussians won 1815 single handed (or conversely, with as much conviction, played no part at all)

There is only one true scale (take your pick as to TOTS).

Metal beats plastic any day (until you see what can be achieved).

One Marshal of France was left behind (or fell out a window) and could have saved the 100 Days Campaign. Which one? Well for the first you have plenty to choose and they usually do.

I thought this was a well written posting on Wavre and loved the photo illustrations from La Musee de l'Armee, but somehow never saw how the two quite married up.

Nice map here…

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Armand

I agree wholeheartedly Deadhead.

The Prussians would never have won in the 100 days without the presence of The Anglo/Scot/Irish/Welsh/Dutch/Belgian/ other Germans army. On the other hand, if at Waterloo, instead of the Prussians arriving:

(a) nobody had arrived, or
(b) a whole lot more French had arrived,

what would the outcome have been?

Cheers,
John

That is a very good quality scan from Alison's Atlas. Thanks for posting.
Regards
Allan