Who was Who at Waterloo: A Biography of the Battle

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