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    2. Orkran on

      This is a particularly good one of these maps.

      You can see little details like the action at Hugenot, the doomed cavalry charges, and that the french collapse only happened when the guards last attack was defeated.

    3. BlackfyreNL on

      As much as I like this animation, it’s a shame that the multinational nature of Wellington’s forces is reduced to a bunch of UK flags, as opposed to showing a mix of British, Dutch / Belgian and Hannoverian flags.

      Approximately 20% of Wellington’s army (about 17,000 men) were Dutch and Belgian soldiers, suffering almost 3,000 losses during the battle of Waterloo and playing a crucial part in the battle of Quatre-Bras in the lead-up to Waterloo.

      Their absence from the history of the battle is part of a long legacy of British historians from the 19th century to the present day, trying to diminish the Dutch-Belgian contribution to the war effort and to chauvinistically recast the battle as a struggle between the French and the British, aided by unreliable allies, but still managing to pull through in the end.

    9. magikarp_splashed on

      What are the forces the came from the east? I dont recognize the flag. I plead ignorance.

    10. ratttertintattertins on

      That Prussian arrival was brutal. You can just imagine the morale effect that must have had, you can literally see it on the map.

    11. BambiDangles14 on

      In Napoleon Total War, I hit Wellington’s left hard, repel the Prussians from the top of the ridge and then go after Wellington on balanced grounds

      Napoleon was actually much more conservative than he normally is and gave a mediocre attempt on Wellington’s left. Way too many corps in reserve for too long.

    12. Kind_Resort_9535 on

      **HEEEEEEERRREEEE COOOOOMES THEEEE DUUUKE OF WEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLINGTOOOOOOON.**

      I have no idea what that’s from, but I yell it in my head once a weeks

    15. FormerCollegeDJ on

      The graphic should be accompanied by music from ABBA’s Eurovision-fueled first big international hit.

    16. 7r4z on

      Presumably men like going to war. I may be an outlier, because to me it seems very very scary.

    19. exitns on

      I’d love to hear more about the process of how this was estimated and made, very cool.

    22. Leprecon on

      It is kind of nuts that we have such detailed accounts of exact movements and such that we can just put it on a modern map without any issues.

    24. TheWaterIsFine82 on

      A great (and exhaustive) commentary on this battle is found in the middle of the novel Les Miserable. A say this with sarcasm, as reading that book is the only reason I know anything about that battle, thus this knowledge was forced on me while trying to read a literary classic. Widely regarded in Les Mis fan circles to be the longest and most boring tangent Victor Hugo takes in the novel.

    25. TheRomanRuler on

      This is one of the best representations for Prussians i have seen. You can see how big portion of Napoleon’s army was effectively taken out of battle already before Prussian were within fighting range, and how many more had to be later sent to reinforce them just to keep Prussians in check. Imagine having all of those men, including some of the precious guardsmen, available for attack against Wellington.

      As it was, French guard had to attack without much cavalry support, without much artillery support, and they had to move in squares to counter threat of Wellington’s cavalry, and the most experienced battalions of Old guard were kept in reserve (just 2 battalions, would not have changed anything) yet they still broke trough Wellington’s first line before being routed.

      Imagine having those additional 15 000-20 000 men to assault Wellington’s lines. Napoleon would have still lost the war but Waterloo would have become another heroic story of Napoleon’s success.

    27. Jeffery95 on

      And apparently in most wargames of this same battle the french win it handily. Napoleons medical situation stopped him from properly commanding the battle.

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