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Ligny
Ligny , village, Namur prov., central Belgium, near Namur. At Ligny, on June 16, 1815, Napoleon I of France defeated the Prussians under Blücher early in the Waterloo campaign .
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1815 The Waterloo Campaign-Wellington, His Allies and the Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 8/1/1998; ; 695 words
; ...admirable addition to the history of the Waterloo Campaign. Mr Hofschroer has made an important...Wellington's German contingents to the Waterloo campaign, written from a clearly admitted...part of a two volume series on the Waterloo Campaign from Mr Hofschroer. Let us hope that...
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Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/1994; ; 345 words
; ...to take charge of the French army assembled on the Belgiam frontier. It often an excellent, well-balanced account of the Waterloo campaign and battle and provides a moving description of the final days until the embarkation of Napoleon for England. The central...
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TOOTHBRUSH ON SALE; IT WAS NAPOLEON'S
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/11/1988; ; 105 words
; ...Napoleon's coat of arms, came from the estate of a British officer who found it after the battle of Waterloo in 1815. The Waterloo campaign crushed Napoleon's attempt to return to rule and forced him to abdicate for a second time. HLEWIS;09/09 LDRISC;09/12,17...
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Redistributing the laurels
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 2/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN: WELLINGTON, HIS GERMAN ALLIES AND THE BATTLES OF LIGNY AND QUATRE BRAS by Peter Hofschroer Greenhill, L25, pp. 398 When Lord Acton...
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Elizabeth Edwards talks health care.
Newspaper article from: Waterloo Courier (Waterloo, IA); 6/13/2007; 522 words
; Byline: Jens Manuel Krogstad Jun. 13--WATERLOO -- At the opening of her husband's Waterloo campaign office, Elizabeth Edwards proved she possesses a firm grasp of major policy issues, answering in detail questions ranging from...
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Comment: Don't mention the (Napoleonic) war Notebook
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/16/1999; ; 686 words
; A GERMAN historian, The Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday, has published a book called The Waterloo Campaign - The German Victory. The historian, a Herr Hofschroer, does not just say what the British have always agreed: that the Prussians...
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Upstaging the Prussians
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/24/2004; ; 628 words
; ...apposite than when applied to Wellington and Waterloo.' In his two previous books, the second of which is called 1815, The Waterloo Campaign: The German Victory, he argued that the Duke of Wellington deliberately let the initial French attack fall on the Prussians...
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Duo miss out in champions showdown; Jack HIGH.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England); 9/30/2008; 349 words
; ...A PROJECT has been launched by top northern bowler Roger Crowther appealing for volunteers to join him in a 'Save the Waterloo' campaign following months of uncertainty over the future of the Waterloo Hotel Blackpool. When the Waterloo was owned, supported...
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Game beat. (Mac Beat).
Magazine article from: Macworld; 5/1/2003; 411 words
; ...from By Design (800/527-7472, www.macwargames.com): A new turn-based Napoleonic-era warfare strategy game based on the Waterloo Campaign engine, Borodino covers the battle between Napoleon and the Russians in 1812. An OS X-native version is also available...
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The Memoirs of Baron Von Muffling, A Prussian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal; 8/1/1997; ; 573 words
; ...Scharnhorst-inspired Army of 1813-14: secondly, in shedding light on the problems of Anglo-Prussian cooperation in the Waterloo campaign. With too much bad staffwork in June 1815 in the Prussian and Anglo-Allied armies, liaison duty became doubly important...
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Quatre Bras, battle of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Belgium, striking with his main force against the Prussians at Ligny. A subsidiary force under Marshal Ney headed towards the vital...French corps spent the day marching between Quatre Bras and Ligny, and participated in neither battle. By nightfall, Wellington...
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Étienne Maurice Gérard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...fought with distinction in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and in the Waterloo campaign he served with gallantry at Ligny. Returning from exile in 1817, he became a deputy of the opposition and supported the July Revolution of 1830, which brought...
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Battle of Waterloo
Book article from: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
...Allied army of 68,000 aided by 45,000 Prussians under Gebhard von Blücher . After the French defeated the Prussians at Ligny and held Wellington at Quatre-Bras in secondary battles on June 16, Napoleon's marshals, including Michel Ney , failed to eliminate...
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Quatre Bras, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...France in 1815 on his return from Elba, Napoleon advanced into Belgium, striking with his main force against the Prussians at Ligny. A subsidiary force under Marshal Ney headed towards the vital crossroads at Quatre Bras. Although initially outnumbered, elements...
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Quatre Bras
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...There, on June 16, 1815, in a battle of the Waterloo campaign , the British under Arthur Wellington gradually repulsed the French under Michel Ney . However, Ney prevented Wellington's forces from aiding those of Blücher against Napoleon I at Ligny.
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