Friday, May 29, 2015

Waterloo 1815 (2): Ligny, John Franklin. .

Waterloo 1815 (2): Ligny, John Franklin. .
Second in a trilogy on the Waterloo campaign, looking at the least familiar of the three battles to the English-language reader, the French victory over the Prussians at Ligny, fought on the same day as the successful Allied defensive battle at Quatre Bras. This is a good study of Napoleon's last battlefield victory, and the last of the many 'missed opportunities' of his later years.
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