THE FRENCH AT WATERLOO - EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS: Napoleon, Imperial Headquarters and 1st Corps

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Uses selected extracts from French eyewitness accounts to better understand what happened at Waterloo. Features Napoleon's own description of the battle, those of his immediate household and the Imperial headquarters, and those of members of 1st Corps. Napoleon's own version of events was used as the basis of many subsequent histories that ignore or gloss over his many dubious claims. His account of his actions and his view of what happened on that decisive day, and those of his close associates, make fascinating reading.