Battle of Waterloo

Battle of Waterloo - Fascinating History of Waterloo Battle From Start To Finish, And The Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte

Six days (March 13, 1815) before Napoleon reached Paris, the authority of the Congress of Vienna had declared him an outlaw. Four days after the declaration, the mobilized armies of Prussia, Austria, Russia, and the United Kingdom planned an attack to defeat Napoleon. Napoleon was aware that once he attempted to attack one or more of the allies of the Seventh Coalition in the French invasion, his only chance of retaining his power would be to attack first before the mobilization of all the armies of the Coalition. His goal was to destroy the existing forces of the Coalition that were in the south of Brussels before they were commanded. Once this happened, Napoleon might be able to drive the British army back to the sea and defeat the Prussian army in battle.
The initial disposition of Wellington was to deal with the threat of Napoleon’s attack by gathering all the armies of the Coalition. Part of his disposition was to transfer to the southwest of Brussels through Mons. With this transfer, Wellington’s communications with his base at Ostend were cut. However, the transfer got his army closer to the army of Blucher. On the contrary, Napoleon took advantage of Wellington’s fear of losing his supply chain with false intelligence from the channel ports. He divided his army into two wings, the right wing under the command of Marshal Grouchy and the left wing under the command of Marshal Ney. He also had his own reserve army that fell under his command. Before dawn on June 15, the...

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