Everyone knows about the Battle of Waterloo or do they?
This book presents the battle as never before: through the personal stories of over 150 people present at the battle or its immediate aftermath. A reference book, a biographical dictionary, and a myth-busting expose, Who was Who at Waterloo is an indispensable guide to historys most famous battle.
Arranged in alphabetical order, and with entries highlighted throughout the text like links in a website, the book boasts a colourful cast of soldiers, politicians, peasants, surgeons, artists, novelists, poets, scientists, entrepreneurs, and more. It provides many sorties into nineteenth century culture, politics, medicine and science. It also provides a thorough look at the sources, identifying myths, irregularities and cover-ups. The book demonstrates how little we can really know about Waterloo. And yet it also demonstrates just how much can be said about the battles participants.
Table of Contents:
A
Adam, Major General Sir Frederick William
Alava, Miguel Ricardo de
Allix de Vaux, General Jacques-Alexandre-François, baron
Alten, Lieutenant General Sir Charles von
Anton, Sergeant James
Arentschildt, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick, Baron von
B
Bachelu, General Gilbert Désirée Joseph
Bailly de Monthion, General François Gédéon
Baring, Major George
Barker, Henry Aston
Bell, Sir Charles
Bijlandt, Major General Willem Frederik van
Blücher, Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von
Bolton, Captain Samuel
Bourmont, General Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisnes, Count
Brack, Captain Prosper Fortuné, de
Brewer, Joseph
Brô, ColonelLouis
Brunswick, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of
Bull, Major Robert
Bülow, General Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von
Burney (married name d’Arblay), Frances or ‘Fanny’
Butterworth, John
C
Cambronne, General Pierre Jacques
Campbell, Lieutenant Robert Preston
Capel, Caroline
Chassé, Lieutenant General David Hendrik, Baron
Chastel, General Louis Pierre Aimé, Baron
Clark, Captain Alexander Kennedy
Clay, Private Matthew
Coignet, Captain Jean-Roch
Colbert-Chabanais, GeneralEdouard de
Cole, General Sir Galbraith Lowry
Colville, General Sir Charles
Constant de Rebecque, Jean Victor
Cooke, Major GeneralSir George
Cotton, Edward
Crawford, Donald
Creevey, Thomas
D
Decoster, Jean
De Lancey, Lady Magdalen
De Lancey, Sir William Howe
Delort, GeneralJacques Antoine
D’Erlon, General Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Count
Detmers, Colonel H.
D’Hoogvoorst, Baron Joseph van der Linden
Domon, General Jean Simon
Dörnberg, Major General Sir Wilhelm Kaspar Ferdinand von
Drouot, GeneralAntoine, Count
Duhesme, General Philibert Guillaume, Count
Dupuis, Madame Thérèse
Dupuy, Major Victor
Durutte, General Pierre François
E
Eaton (née Waldie), Charlotte Anne
Evans, Tom
Ewart, Sergeant Charles
Exelmans, General Rémy Joseph Isidore
F
Ferrior, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel
Fitzroy Somerset, Colonel James Henry
Fleury de Chamboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard
Fouler, General Albert Emmanuel
Foy, General Maximilien Sebastien
Fraser, Sergeant Ralph
Frazer, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Augustus Simon
Fremantle, LieutenantColonel John
Friant, General Louis, Count
G
Gérard, General Maurice Etienne
Gneisenau, August Wilhelm Anton, Count von
Gordon, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Alexander
Graeme, Lieutenant George Drummond
Graham, Corporal
Gronow, Rees Howell
Grouchy, Marshal Emmanuel, Marquis de
Guyot, General Charles, Claude-Etienne, Count
H
Halkett, Major General Sir Colin
Halkett, Colonel Hew, Baron von
Hamilton, Lieutenant Colonel James Inglis
Hill, General Rowland
Hitchens, Richard
Hunt, Philip
J
Jacquinot, Charles Claude, Baron
Jardin, père or aîné
Jérôme, Prince
Jerzmanowski, Lieutenant Colonel Jan Pawel, Baron
Jolyet, Major Jean-Baptiste
K
Keller, Major von
Kelly, Captain Edward
Kempt, Major General Sir James
Kennedy, Ensign James Grant
Kincaid, Lieutenant John
L
Labédoyère, General Charles-Angélique-François-Huchet, Count
Larrey, Dominique-Jean, Baron
Lawrence, Sergeant William
Leach, Captain Jonathan
Leeke, Ensign William
Lefebvre-Desnouëttes, General Charles, Count
Lobau, General Georges Mouton, Count
M
Macdonell, Lieutenant Colonel Sir James
MacKay, Piper Kenneth
Maitland, Major General Peregrine
Marbot, Colonel Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcellin, Baron de
Marshall, Sergeant Major Matthew
Mercer, Captain Alexander Cavalié
Merlen, Major General J.B., van
Milhaud, General Edouard-Jean-Baptiste, Count
Morris, Thomas
Müffling, General Philipp Friedrich Carl Ferdinand, Baron von
Muter, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph
N
Napoleon I
Ney, Marshal Michel, Duke of Elchingen, prince of Moskova
O
Ompteda, Colonel Christian Frederick William von, Baron
Orange, William Frederick George, Prince of
P
Percy, Major Henry
Perponcher-Sedlnitzky, Lieutenant General Henri-Georges, Baron
Petre, Lieutenant Henry William
Picton, Lieutenant General Sir Thomas
Pirch, Major General Georg Dubislaw Ludwig
Piré-Hippolyte, General Marie-Guillaume, Count
Ponsonby, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick Cavendish
Ponsonby, Major General Sir William
Pozzo di Borgo, General Carlo Andrea, Count
Q
Quiot du Passage, General Joachim, baron
R
Reille, General Honoré-Charles-Michel-Joseph, Count
Richmond, General Charles Lennox, fourth Duke of
S
Saint-Denis, Louis Etienne
Saltoun, Alexander George Fraser, Lord
Sandham, Captain Charles F.
Scott, Sir Walter
Seymour, Captain Horace Beauchamp
Shaw, Corporal John
Simmons, Lieutenant George
Smith, Captain Sir Henry George Wakelyn
Smith, Admiral Sir William Sidney
Somerset, Major General Lord (Robert) Edward Henry
Soult, Marshal (‘Nicolas’) Jean-de-Dieu
Styles, Corporal Francis
T
Thielemann, General Johann Adolf, Baron von
Thornton, James
‘T.S.’
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
U
Uchelen, Lieutenant van
Uxbridge, Henry William Paget, second Earl of
V
Vandamme, General Dominique-Joseph-René, Count
Vandeleur, Major General Sir John Ormsby
Vivian, Major General Sir Richard Hussey
W
Waterloo, Frederica M’Mullen
Weir, Sergeant John
Wellington, Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of
Wheatley, Lieutenant Edmund
Whinyates, Captain Edward Charles
Woodford, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander George
Z
Ziethen, Lieutenant General Hans Ernst Karl, Count von
Appendix I Chronology of major political events
Appendix II Chronology of the Waterloo campaign
Appendix III Order of battle: Blucher’s Army of the North
Appendix IV Order of battle: Wellington’s Army of the Low Countries
Appendix VI: British Waterloo regiments: strengths and losses
Appendix VII: The British purchase system
Appendix VIII: Wellington’s Waterloo Dispatch to Earl Bathurst
Appendix IX The Battles of Waterloo and Quatre-Bras, as reported by The Times
Bibliography
Index
About the Author :
Christopher Summerville is a freelance editor and writer specialising in military history. His ambition is to popularise the Napoleonic era, and to make that most colourful and dramatic of periods accessible to the general reader. He has published several books on the period including Napoleon's Polish Gamble: Eylau and Friedland 1807(2005), Regency Recollections: Captain Gronow's Guide to Life in London and Paris (2006) and March of Death: Sir John Moore's Retreat to Corunna, 1808-1809 (2003). He lives and works in York.
Review :
'In Who Was Who At Waterloo: A Biography Of The Battle, he tackles the defining event of the Napoleonic wars - the battle that finally brought Napoleon's dream crashing down. A book to send chills of excitement down your spine.' "Stephen Lewis"
