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Waterloo Prussian Infantry
I Need Help With My History Essay On The Battle Of Waterloo!!!!!!!!!?
We were watching a DVD on the battle of Waterloo for a history assessment and the supply teacher stood in front of the smart board and talked over a chunk of it. that chunk's the answers to one of the questions.
The question is "How Did The British Defeat The French Old Guard?"
The DVD said "with his cavalry defeated and the Prussians advancing Napoleon decided to attack with his elite infantry, The Old Guard. The Old Guard would have made short work of the British redcoats one on one so Wellington devised a plan. He told his... RIGHT BOYS STOP TALKING OR YOU WON'T HEAR THE DVD AND YOU WON'T GET A GOOD GRADE IN THE ASSESSMENT!!! YOU BOY, GET YOUR HEAD UP NOW!!!! RIGHT THERE WE GO.... and the old guard found themselves doing something they had never done before, retreating. The battle was won and Napoleon was defeated.
Do you know what she talked over?
Thanx for ur help!!!!! 
ahahaha, very funny XD. and Ironic.
Right, on to the topic. As the other guy said, they hid behind hill to gain protection from artillery. Also because british solders were on the ground, they seem as the french as dead, which took the old guard by surprise when they suddenly stood back up. Plus they were firing at Point blank.
another factor was the ground. It just rained, the ground was muddy, muddy ground reduce effectiveness of cannon balls because they slow cannon balls down.
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| Airfix 1/72 HO Waterloo Prussian Infantry 1978 Bilingua | | | US $29.99 | 16d 18h 15m |
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Waterloo - The Prussians - Original Record from the Motion Picture (1970)
The Battle Of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was executed on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, Belgium. The forces of the French Empire led by Emperor Napoleon I and Michel Ney were defeated by the Seventh Coalition inclusive of an Anglo-Allied army led by the Duke of Wellington and a Prussian led by Gebhard von Blücher. It is considered the defining battle of the Waterloo Campaign and was the final battle led by Napoleon. This massive defeat meant an end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French, and in additionrepresented the conclusion of his Hundred Days of return from being exiled.
Once Napoleon returned to power in 1815, several states that were against his reign formed the Seventh Coalition and began mobilizing armies. Two enormous forces under Wellington and von Blücher assembled near the northeastern border of France. Napoleon opted to attack hoping to annihilate them before they could carry out a fully coordinated invasion of France with other members of the Coalition. The historical conflict of this three-day Waterloo Campaign lasted from the 16 June – 19 June 1815. Wellington described the battle was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life."
Napoleon delayed going to battle until noon on 18 June deciding to give the ground some time to dry. Wellington's army was positioned across the Brussels road on the Mont St Jean escarpment and stood up to repeated attacks by the French. By evening, the Prussians joined the battle and broke through Napoleon's right flank. At that instance, Wellington's Anglo-allied army counter-attacked and overpowered the French fighters who were thrown into chaos. The Coalition forces were then able to enter France and restore Louis XVIII to the French throne. Napoleon was left with no choice and surrendered to the British following which he was exiled to Saint Helena where he would stay until his death in 1821.
General Baron Jomini, one of the well known military writers on the Napoleonic art of war had a number of very reasonable explanations for Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo.
In my opinion, four principal causes led to this disaster:
The first, and most influential, was the arrival, skilfully combined, of Blücher, and the false movement that favoured this arrival; the second, was the admirable firmness of the British infantry, joined to the sang-froid and aplomb of its chiefs; the third, was the horrible weather, that had softened the ground, and rendered the offensive movements so toilsome, and retarded till one o'clock the attack that should have been made in the morning; the fourth, was the inconceivable formation of the first corps, in masses very much too deep for the first grand attack.
Some areas of the terrain on the battlefield have since then been changed from their 1815 appearance. Tourism started the day following the battle. Captain Mercer stated that on 19 June "a carriage drove on the ground from Brussels, the inmates of which, alighting, proceeded to examine the field".
The battlefield existsin present-day Belgium, an estimated eight miles (12 km) SSE of Brussels, and about a mile (1.6 km) from the town of Waterloo. The site of the battlefield is in presently home to a large monument: the Lion Mound.
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