Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815, Volume 1: From Elba to Ligny and Quatre Bras

by John Hussey

What will be attempted here is an analysis of the ways in which the Prussian generals at several levels of command handled the problems of the defensive, of holding a river line and a major town while playing for time in which to concentrate a dispersed army, and alerting their ally. This will not exclude an account of the actions on 15 June of the two of Ziethen’s four brigades that were fully involved in the fighting, but it will concentrate more upon the higher direction of the battle.