| Show the battle of waterloo napoleon would have won the battle of waterloo had grouchy prevented the junction ol of the prussians with the english engish army because he would not have had to fight two battles at once few persons realize that the so called battle of waterloo was in reality a double battle somewhat like jena and auer stadt napoleon fought one battle at waterloo against the english or on the arrival of the prussians he was forced to go in person toward and there fight another battle against the prussian grussi army leaving to ney the konduct of the troops at waterloo it Is i well known maxim in war that a very great or decisive victory cannot be rained unless one commander makes a serious erious blander of which the other abess ko immediate aadu advantage vantage it is very abat e S al th emperors at once in battles two having to 0 elgh t hla his attention ou on concentrating ste ghead of the increased enormously one on alone pos possibility si billOr of a mistake Ini stake moreover napoleon lieutenants did no not t have the able campaigns dessaix Dess alx of his former lannes and bessieres Bess leres were kleber dead massena and mdonald macdonald had taken the oath of allegiance to the had split with the bourbons bourbon and an d murat emperor napoleons personal attention was therefore imperative to grouchy alone all blame must be attributed f tor or had he prevented the union of the with the english the emperor would w have had bad to fight only one battle at a time and could have given his entire personal attention to that one battle tn in the second place ce napoleon would rould v not have been forced to fight with 71 men against two armies nu numbering meering about two tc one against him he would have had good soldiers pitted against a raw undisciplined C i army arm of 67 men under the L duke of wellington which was not only inferior in mere numbers but far inferior in morale and experience the chances would have been greatly in i favor L of the french then too the french army was commanded by bv the acknowledged masters of moden warfare whose brilliant successes at rivoli marengo austerlitz jena frial land wagram bagram the borodina and dresden de had dazzled the whole world until I 1 1 then napoleon had never been defeated d in any great decisive battle except leipsic and the french were trong irons in the th confidence of the emperors emp s success two of the best writers on the waterloo W ater campaign shaw kennedy and st sl bourne both englishmen concur in saying saving that had grouchy kept the away the english army would have been badly beaten this view also held by bv the ablest writer of all mr ropes united service review |
