Waterloo: great battles
The story of Waterloo, the battle that finally ended Napoleon's imperial dreams: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean.
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- Full title :Waterloo : great battles / Prof Alan Forrest.
Summary
The story of Waterloo, the battle that finally ended Napoleon's imperial dreams: how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (241 pages) : : illustrations, maps.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191640292, 0191640298, 0199663254, 9780199663255
- oclc:ocn905861813
- LC Classification:DC242
- Dewey Decimal:940.2742
Table of Contents
Cover -- Great Battles: Waterloo -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- 2: From Vienna to Waterloo -- Congress Europe -- Napoleon and War -- Escape from Elba -- The Hundred Days -- Return to War -- 3: The Waterloo Campaign -- The Rival Armies -- Ligny and Quatre Bras -- Waterloo -- Hougoumont -- DÉrlonś Assault -- Neyś Cavalry Charge -- La Haie Sainte -- Nemesis -- 4: First Responses to Waterloo -- The Waterloo Despatch -- Waterloo in Parliament -- The Mood of Recrimination -- Napoleon after Waterloo -- Reaction in Paris -- The Second Restoration -- 5: Military Memoirs and Communicative Memory -- 6: Wellington and British Memory of Waterloo -- Contemporary Accounts -- The Scottish Dimension -- The Politics of Commemoration -- Waterloo in Art -- Monuments and Memorials -- The Name of Waterloo -- Battlefield Tourism -- Wellington: A Contested Hero -- Waterloo and the British Army -- 7: France, Waterloo, and the Napoleonic Legend -- A Culture of Defeat -- Nostalgia and Conspiracy -- Public Art and Memorialization -- Waterloo in Literature -- Napoleonś Reputation -- A Glorious Defeat -- 8: Waterloo in German and Dutch Memory -…
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