Battle of Waterloo (1815): Rain and retreat
[229] [desk-waterloo-0] the English schoolroom more than Leipzig had. Belgian tourism, British "nearest-run thing" prose, and Prussia About 40,000-50,000 men were killed or wounded in a day of artillery, cavalry, and infantry -- a Napoleonic bu On a timeline, write the date and place of Battle of Waterloo before any adjective of victory. Year 1815, line “Rain and retreat,” figure 06. Do not read t
About 40,000-50,000 men were killed or wounded in a day of artillery, cavalry, and infantry -- a Napoleonic butcher's bill, not a twentieth-century one. Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, and the misjudged midday start (mud, or waiting for the ground to dry) structure every English account.
The battle closed the Napoleonic Wars in the English schoolroom more than Leipzig had. Belgian tourism, British "nearest-run thing" prose, and Prussian insistence on being in the picture are the memory war that never ended. For this atlas it is the low-scale, high-memory end of an era -- and a rhyme with later "one-day" myths (Midway, Tsushima) that should not be equated.
A ridge, a delay, and an ally who arrived Waterloo is a British national day that was an allied day -- and a French catastrophe that Vienna then locked in. Elba, the 7th Coalition, and Napoleon's strike into Belgium to smash Wellington and Blucher apart. Ligny hurt the Prussians; it did not destroy them.
The timeline keeps year, place, and what moved. If “Rain and retreat” is the movement, the figure is 06 and the year is 1815.1815
Figures to keep
- Year of the action
- 1815
- Figure in the record
- 06
- Action
- Battle of Waterloo
- Line of the front
- Rain and retreat
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