Show WATERLOO the tile salient features of the tile celebrated battle before a very large audience at the institute of technology last evening mr john 0 ropes delivered tho the seventh and last lecture of 0 f his bourse course on oil napoleon napoleo it the lecture which was the best of the series was abundantly illustrated with fine kere views tho the battle of ligny bligny on the icah of june said mr ropes although it had not been a victory of the first order yet it had been a decided decide success to the tile duac countable neglect of the emperor to ascertain the direction in which the prussians had retreated followed folio W as it was by a mistaken COD conjecture ct on his part as to that dirleton direction dire eton and an unpardonable tardiness in taking any measure for pursuit gravely imperilled imperil led the success of his plans had lad I the fabis been b known as they unquestionably might and to have been know by 8 in the tile morning of tho the bonaparte would not have divided his army he would have carried it all al I 1 to waterloo instead of bending send 9 off grouchy with men inen III to pursue the prussians after warning the marshall of the possibility of their having fallen back to the north sons so as to join johi forces with the english the emperor then wasted a golden opportunity in hot attacking the english on the morning of the at quatre bras in the mean meantime tinte Dl blucher ucher still full of fight had bad fallen back upon wavre bavre whence lie lip could march to the assistance si stance of wellington who had agreed to give battle at waterloo distant only ten miles on condition that blucher should send him one or two of f his corps b by y noon at the latest grouchy sent assurances to tho the emperor from that ho he would p protect protect his interest on the right and keep the prussians away from wellington by 2 in the orning tn of 0 f the grouchy C knew that blucher had retreated re re to with the intention of joining forces with the english it was wits then clearly grouches Grouch ys duty duy to march immediately to join napoleon and ho lie would have been enabled by so doing to hold the defiles of the lasne and keep the prussians from taking part in the battle instead of doing this he marched mar clied to to IV T ta tl thought thought t that a this was wa not tho cither either to keep the russians Kue RuE separated from the tile english or failing this to t 0 reach the battlefield batile field and ang prevent the emperor empero r from being overwhelmed by both armies even when warned by the cannon of waterloo and most earnestly besought by his officers to march toward napoleon Nn N be tarn turn ed a aeao di af par proceeded on his way toward and wasted the afternoon t in attacking the corps of theil man the talo two armies at waterloo were about equal in nur numbers T albers but napoleons wig was much superior in quality wellington still believing thai that bonaparte intended io to turn his hu right had sent off to and hal the lecturer then detailed the th salient features of the great battle of the th of his own opponents army the arrangement of his own for a defensive fight napo COD with a pe perfect rf act confidence that would w d k keep ep blucher from the field waiting until noon for the rain soaked fields to dry up the dash at int and the repulse the failure of DE rions gallant attack upon tho the dukes duke left and t the a countercharge odthe of the english Englis fi t the e fall of sir thomas pic fiction tion and the heavy loses on the british left from the terrible fire of french r artillery men and skirmishers the approach of Bulov 13 prussian n CO corpa 3 from art bavre and lobaza sturdy gle with the new foeman in his effort t to 11 protect the emperors right the dil I 1 rs but im impotent tent cavalry charges cli argei upon the british 8 squares aares in in the centre of the line vey Is capture late in the after afternoon of t the be farmhouse of la ataye sainte around which inbi chubb the storm of battle had beco beca sur surging i ug all day the tile desperate s erate struggle gb between cobau an and et the advancing prussians the arrival arriva I 1 of Pru prussian seian reinforcements at the lime time of napoleons N apo leons supreme effort to to dri English orn rpm the plateau and his its log lost t opportunity anity at this moment to cease ce ase aking tho the offensive and place bis his army in a attitude of defence the repulse strong of the final grand charge and the annihilation an orabe of the guard the giving i ving way of lobai 10 legi legions onsbe before fo re bulowa billows furious charges iho ille panic ic the tife retreat napoleons napoleon 8 fruitless rul aless 1 1 attempts to stem the tide and the flight night of the army array mr ropes paid a warm tribute to io the cool coolness loyalty gallantry and high chivalry of wellington to and blubber br in in gi standing anding by cacti each other i aa Is they did in the trying d days I 1 ys of tuo tile and th of june I 1 in regard to th the 0 causo cause which led the defeat it the lecturer believed 1 to if the tile emperor had not divided tb that at he lie would have hav e been able bis his army of the lasne tobol to hold d the crossings ho he could while with 21 men throw th row men inen upon 1100 wellington and easily crush jam had grouchy on the when he had learned of bluchers Blu chers movements acted with promptness etuess ho he would have been able to establish communication with the emperor E emperor boon soon after noon nonn and napoleon would have been left free to employ the whole fort force which he had brought with him against the duke if he be could have used against the english the 1600 0 men tinder cobau who had bad been kept busy with bu billows lows prussian corps wellington would hayo have been defeated the speaker spent spen toome some time in discussing the purport ot of two dispatches over which there had lad been much controversy pent b by Y bonaparte bopa to grouchy neither of which wh reached th the marshal in time action mr ropes maintained that their spirit en titio joined ined grouchy to keep between the theorus and find the french P rench and move e constantly toward the latter but the emperor left the details of the movement to the marshals more exact knowledge of the country herald |