1892 The Campaign of Waterloo A Military History

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

In the publisher's original navy cloth binding.

This volume is a first edition.

This edition includes two inserted maps to the rear, one of the theatre of war in Belgium, and the other of the battlefield of Waterloo. Collated, complete.

This is a detailed analytical history of Napoleon’s Hundred-Days campaign, delivered from a strictly military perspective. The author promises an impartial, evidence-based reconstruction of events, drawing on French, British and Prussian primary sources and reserving detailed controversies for notes and appendices. Each chapter gives the narrative first, then analytical notes that weigh competing eyewitness accounts.

John Codman Ropes (1836-1899) was a Boston lawyer, co-founder of Ropes & Gray, and one of America’s most respected 19ᵗʰ-century military historians.