Everyman, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Everyman, Vol. 2: His Life, Work and Books, April 18-October 10, 1913 The Prussians, defeated at Ligny, retired towards Brussels, so by a parallel line did Wellington with his anglo-german-dutch force. The'two halves of the line Napoleon had pierced were each in being, and each remained in the neighbourhood of the other as it fell back. After the Prussians, to watch them and see what theylwere doing and whither they retired, Napoleon sent Grouchy with a very large body of men, weakening his army (lessened as it already was after the losses of the two battles) by nearly a third. Grouchy's instructions were, of course, not only to watch the Prussians, but to prevent them joining Wellington, who was retiring by that parallel line, only a few miles off. On that Saturday evening the Prus sians drew up round a little town called \vavre, due south-east of Brussels, while, only eight or nine miles off, Wellington put his army in line that same evening upon a low ridge in front of the village of Waterloo, which is very little short of due south of Brussels. The two commanders, whose united forces amounted to close upon the double of the whole French Army (and much more, of course, than double what Napoleon. Commanded, now that Grouchy was away), awaited the attack of the morrow, but the only one im mediately in front of Napoleon was Wellington, in his position on the ridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.