The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy's Retreat: A Study of an Obscure Part of the Waterloo CampaignJ. Murray, 1905 - 170 ページ |
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advanced guard Allies arrived attack Avesnes Basse Wavre battalions batteries battle BATTLE OF WAVRE Bavette Bierges bivouacked Blucher Blucher's army Borcke bridge Brigade Bulow Bulow's Corps campaign Cavalry Corps centre Charleroi columns command concentration d'Erlon daybreak defeated despatch detachment Dion-le-Mont Dyle Emperor enemy enemy's Excelmans fight Fleurus Fourth Corps Frasnes French front Gembloux Gérard's Corps Gosselies Grouchy Grouchy's force guns Hannut Horse Artillery Hussars join JUNE 18 Liège Ligny Limale Lobau's main body miles Mont St Guibert Mont St Jean move movement Namur Namur road Napoleon Ney's night Ninth Division numbers o'clock orders outposts Pajol Paris Perwez Phillippeville Pirch Pirch's Corps position Prussian army Prussian right pursue pursuit pushed Quatre-Bras rear rear-guard Reille Reserve Cavalry retired right flank Sambre Sauvenière Second Corps sent Sombreffe Soult squadrons St Lambert Stulpnagel's Teste's Division Thielemann Thielemann's Corps Third Corps troops Vandamme Vandamme's Corps village Walhain Wellington Zieten Zieten's Corps دو
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