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There is an old saying that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. The battle was really won in the muck and the mud surrounding La Haye Sainte and Hougoumont, two strongholds on the battlefield which stymied the French attack, delaying it long enough to allow the Prussian army to arrive and take Napoleon in the flank.
This book is the story of the 400 men of the King's German Legion who held La Haye Sainte against repeated assaults by thousands of Napoleon's soldiers. I would rank their gallant defense on a par with the more famous defenses of Thermopylae, the Alamo, and Rorke's Drift.
The King's German Legion were expatriate Hanoverian soldiers who fled their country for England when Napoleon was rampaging through Eastern Europe. They fought in the service of England throughout the Napoleonic Wars and acquitted themselves with distinction throughout. The assault on La Haye Sainte was probably their finest hour.
- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Basic Books; 1st edition (February 10, 2015)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0465064825
- ISBN-13: 978-0465064823
- Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.8 x 8.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Customer Reviews: 34 customer reviews
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#915,462 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #143 in Belgian History
- #2075 in Military Strategy History (Books)
- #254 in Napoleonic War History (Books)
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