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Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved huge armies and heavy losses on both sides. For those who fought in it - Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British and French troops - it was a murderous struggle....
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Great battles
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| Summary: |
Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams. It involved huge armies and heavy losses on both sides. For those who fought in it - Dutch and Belgians, Prussians and Hanoverians as well as British and French troops - it was a murderous struggle. For all its ferocity, it was a battle that would be remembered very differently across Europe. In Britain it would be seen as an iconic battle whose memory would be enmeshed in British national identity across the following century. It failed to achieve this iconic status elsewhere. In Prussia it |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199663255 : 0199663254 |
| Index Number: | DC242 |
| CLC: | K565.41 |
| Call Number: | K565.41/F728-1 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- From Vienna to Waterloo -- The Waterloo Campaign -- First Responses to Waterloo -- Military Memoirs and Communicative Memory -- Wellington and British Memory of Waterloo -- France, Waterloo, and the Napoleonic Legend -- Waterloo in German and Dutch Memory -- Postscript. |