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Waterloo day
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Posted on June 18, 2025 at 12:44:30 by vince moran

Is it too woke sensitive to publish?
Oh well,cancel me if you must
Waterloo
In a sun-baked field in Belgium, about 15 miles south of Brussels, an amiable Belgian called Arnaud Springuel is telling me how the Duke of Wellington beat Napoleon here, 210 years ago, at the Battle of Waterloo. In the end, apparently, it all came down to the unpredictable Belgian weather.

Belgium shares our capricious climate. As he gathered his troops a few miles from here, the day before the battle, Napoleon prayed for sunshine. It rained.
On June 18, 1815, Napoleon wanted to attack at dawn, but the battlefield was so sodden that his generals urged him to wait, to let the fields dry out. The mud would slow down his advancing cavalry and infantry – and also severely limit the firepower of his artillery. When cannonballs hit hard ground, they bounced. With troops packed close together, standing shoulder to shoulder, the effect was deadly. When the ground was soft, those cannonballs sank.

Waterloo
The Waterloo battlefield sits 15 miles to the south of Brussels Credit: E+
Napoleon eventually attacked at around 11am, by which time precious hours had been wasted. The ground was still wet, and now the Prussians, under Field Marshal Blücher, were advancing, eager to attack the French.

As Arnaud explains, as we walk across this windswept battlefield, the Battle of Waterloo was a matter of basic arithmetic. Two armies had been mobilised to fight Napoleon: Wellington’s army, with 68,000 men, and Blücher’s army, with 50,000.
Napoleon had 74,000 troops. If he could fight Wellington and Blücher separately, he stood a good chance of beating both of them. If the two armies could unite, he’d be hopelessly outnumbered.

Napoleon needed to keep Wellington and Blücher apart, and initially he succeeded, Arnaud tells me. On June 16 he fought the Prussians at Ligny, about 20 miles south of here, and beat them soundly – but the Prussians retreated in good order, remaining within striking distance.

Arnaud Springuel
Our writer’s guide Arnaud Springuel, who is also Cultural and Scientific Coordinator at Memorial 1815, the foundation which preserves the battlefield
At dawn on June 18, Wellington wrote to Blücher. If he could bring reinforcements, Wellington would fight. If not, he’d retreat to Brussels. Blücher said he’d come, so Wellington said he’d stand and fight. Now the question was how soon Blücher could reach Waterloo, and whether Napoleon could defeat Wellington before he got there.
Napoleon threw everything at Wellington, but when the Prussians arrived, at around 5pm, his army was standing firm. Those lost hours (and the lack of artillery support) proved crucial. Wellington said this battle was “the nearest run thing you ever saw”, and the weather tipped the balance.
so now you know ,sorry wokes ,Publish and be damned
vince








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