Книга. The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, Described by the Series of Accounts Published by Authority, with Circumstantial Details... By a Near Observer. Also Important Particulars, Communicated by Staff, and Regimental Officers, Serving in Different Parts of the Field, with Every Connected Official Document; Forming an Historical Record of the Campaign in the Netherlands, 1815. To which is Added a Register of the Names of the Officers. Tenth edition, enlarged and corrected. 1817
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Книга. The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, Described by the Series of Accounts Published by Authority, with Circumstantial Details... By a Near Observer. Also Important Particulars, Communicated by Staff, and Regimental Officers, Serving in Different Parts of the Field, with Every Connected Official Document; Forming an Historical Record of the Campaign in the Netherlands, 1815. To which is Added a Register of the Names of the Officers. Tenth edition, enlarged and corrected. 1817
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Книга. The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, Described by the Series of Accounts Published by Authority, with Circumstantial Details... By a Near Observer. Also Important Particulars, Communicated by Staff, and Regimental Officers, Serving in Different Parts of the Field, with Every Connected Official Document; Forming an Historical Record of the Campaign in the Netherlands, 1815. To which is Added a Register of the Names of the Officers. Tenth edition, enlarged and corrected.
Веллингтон не любил вспоминать о Ватерлоо. Адресуясь к историкам, писателям и публицистам он говорил: «Оставьте Ватерлоо в покое. Таким, каким оно было». Однажды герцог выразился совсем откровенно: «Я постоянно отвечал отказом на предложения написать историю битвы при Ватерлоо. Но если кто-то напишет правдивую историю сражения, что станет с репутацией половины из тех, кто в нем участвовал?».