With life-blood stain its soil, and pay the due
That lifts it to eternal fame, -- for then
'Tis grown a Gettysburg or Waterloo.
~Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, "Distinction"
BLUCHER!
Cc
Wellington was a man who knew his business.
On a history site I was visiting, someone asked a stupid question. And he got a clever answer.
Question:
What if Napoleon had tanks at Waterloo? Specifically M1 Abram’s, let’s say he had 3 of them and the soldiers running the tanks were familiar with how to use them and he had plenty of ammunition. What would happen?
Answer:
The Duke of Wellington’s A-10s would knock them out.
For those with an interest in the Napoleonic period, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s historic novels set in that era are fun reads.
The Adventures of Gerard
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1644
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11247
Gerard is a French cavalry officer.
The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11656
A young Brit joins the army at a momentous time.
All free at Project Gutenberg.
The British were beaten and on the verge of being pushed off the ridge.
Luckliy for Wellington, a Dutch division moved up and drove back the assault which would have beeb Napoleons kill shot.
Time to break out my good copy of WATERLOO with Rod Steiger and Christopher Plumber..
Rod Steiger as Napoleon
Christopher Plummer as Wellington and Virginia MacKenna as the Duchess of Richmond
Charge of the Scots Greys
Marshal Ney's Cavalry charge shot from a helicopter
The charge from higher up
From higher still as they circle the Allied Infantry squares
“ Blucher or nightfall.”