Re:Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre
by nradov on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:11PM
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A few years later Napoleon almost broke the Allied line at Waterloo. According to the Duke of Wellington it was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life." If Napoleon had succeeded we would be living in a very different world.
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Re:Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre
by jeffdn on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @12:22PM
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Or if Ney had sent forward some light cavalry to reconnoiter the crossroads at Quatre Bras at some point in the morning, he'd have seen that Wellington was not waiting there on the reverse slope. Had he seized the crossroads, he could've totally changed the circumstances that led to the battle at Waterloo.