E-text prepared by Brian Coe, Brian Wilcox, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original maps. See 56995-h.htm or 56995-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56995/56995-h/56995-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/56995/56995-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/campaignofwaterl00roperich Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO * * * * * * _SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME._ AN ATLAS OF THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO. By JOHN CODMAN ROPES. Designed to accompany the author’s “Campaign of Waterloo; a Military History.” Price, $5.00 _net_. CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, Publishers, New York. * * * * * * THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO A Military History by JOHN CODMAN ROPES Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, and the Harvard Historical Society; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Historical Society; Honorary Member of the United States Cavalry Association, etc. Author of “The Army under Pope,” in the Scribner Series of “Campaigns of the Civil War”; “The First Napoleon, a Sketch, Political and Military,” etc. Third Edition. New York Charles Scribner’S Sons 1893 Copyright, 1892, by Charles Scribner’S Sons. PREFACE The need of another narrative of the campaign of Waterloo may not be at first sight apparent. There has been a great deal written on this subject, and much of it has been written by eminent hands. The last and the most unfortunate campaign of the great soldier of modern times has naturally attracted the repeated attention of military historians. Jomini, Clausewitz, Charras, Siborne, Kennedy, Chesney, Vaudoncourt, La Tour d’Auvergne, Thiers, Hooper, and many others have sought to explain the almost inexplicable result,—the complete defeat in a very brief campaign of the acknowledged master of modern warfare. One would suppose that the theme had been exhausted, and that nothing more remained to be said.