Hundred Days
Napoleon's 1815 return. A named operational object of Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815).
Anglo-Allied (British, Dutch-Belgian, German contingents) plus Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine versus the Armee du Nord.
Artillery and heavy cavalry -- Napoleonic tools on a wet field.
Systems
Hougoumont
The chateau fight on Wellington's right.
Napoleon's command
Lost his last set-piece and his throne. The mud-and-Grouchy explanations began in his own circle.
Wellington's command
Held the ridge and later the British political right. "Nearest-run thing" is his caption.
Late start
1815-06-18-am: French guns wait on wet ground -- the famous delay.
Allied coalition held
Britain plus Prussia on one day.
Meters
Geographic / demographic scale
22
Peak intensity
65
How long it defined a period
6
Tech or method shift
25
Borders, regimes, law, alliances
82
Film, school, ritual density
80
Hotspots
Return
Mar-Jun 1815: Elba to Belgium. Named as historical geography of Battle of Waterloo, not as a targeting list.
Two battles
16 June: Ligny and Quatre Bras. Named as historical geography of Battle of Waterloo, not as a targeting list.
The ridge
18 June day: Hougoumont to the Guard. Named as historical geography of Battle of Waterloo, not as a targeting list.
Rout
18 June evening: La Belle Alliance; pursuit. Named as historical geography of Battle of Waterloo, not as a targeting list.
Memory
After: Lion, films, re-enactors. Named as historical geography of Battle of Waterloo, not as a targeting list.
Materials
Chronology (18 June 1815)
Battle of Waterloo is bounded as 18 June 1815. 1815-03 opens the usual narrative (Elba escape); 1815-10 closes it (St Helena).
Theatre: Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium
Place is evidence. Ridge south of Brussels, present-day Belgium is where Battle of Waterloo happened -- a map for readers, not a guide for repeating it.
Human-cost band
about 40,000-50,000 dead and wounded in one day, usual band Keep the figure as a range. Spectacle integers are not a census.
La Haye Sainte
The farm in the centre that fell late. A material of the Battle of Waterloo vocabulary, dated to 18 June 1815.
1815 formations, not a modern ORBAT or a square-drill manual.
Allied diversity is part of the force picture.