Waterloo : the aftermath /
O'Keeffe, Paul,
Waterloo : the aftermath / Paul O'Keeffe. - 392 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prelude: Begun and won -- Shambles -- Dispatches -- Debacle -- Bonaparte -- Coda: Retribution.
In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by voyeuristic tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And as his enemies within and without France closed in, Napoleon saw no avenue ahead but surrender, exile and captivity.
1468311301 9781468311303
2015010800
Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815--Social aspects.
Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815.
Waterloo : the aftermath / Paul O'Keeffe. - 392 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prelude: Begun and won -- Shambles -- Dispatches -- Debacle -- Bonaparte -- Coda: Retribution.
In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by voyeuristic tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And as his enemies within and without France closed in, Napoleon saw no avenue ahead but surrender, exile and captivity.
1468311301 9781468311303
2015010800
Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815--Social aspects.
Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815.