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One of the enduring controversies of the Waterloo campaign is the conduct of Marshal Grouchy. Given command of a third of Napoleon s army and told to keep the Prussians from joining forces with Wellington, he failed to keep Wellington and Blücher apart with the result that Napoleon was overwhelmed at Waterloo. Grouchy, though, was not defeated.
In the Waterloo Campaign, Grouchy commanded the reserve cavalry of the army, and after the Battle of Ligny he was appointed to command the right wing to pursue the Prussians. Napoleon sent Grouchy to pursue a part of the retreating Prussian army under the command of General Johann von Thielmann .
Grouchy had no information that Wellington had taken position at Waterloo; he supposed him to be in retreat before Napoleon. Having no knowledge that a battle was about to take place, he could have no knowledge that the Prussians were marching to take part in it.
Es necesario decir que el día 17, Grouchy fue incapaz de acercarse a los prusianos, y el día 18, a pesar de que se le urgía marchar hacia dónde venía el ruido del cañoneo de Waterloo, se permitió, por la causa que fuera, ser alcanzado por una retaguardia prusiana mientras los prusianos y los ingleses se unían para aplastar a ...
At 10:30 on 19 June, General Grouchy, still following his orders, defeated General Thielemann at Wavre and withdrew in good order—though at the cost of 33,000 French troops that never reached the Waterloo battlefield.
Terrible Slaughter at Waterloo - Warfare History Network. Desperate for a decisive victory over the Seventh Coalition, Napoleon failed to smash the Duke of Wellington’s line at Waterloo on June 18, 1815. This article appears in: July 2015. By David A. Norris.
6 de ago. de 2015 · Meanwhile, Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy had orders to pursue the Prussians to Wavre while staying close enough to join the main force as soon as possible. Among other things, Napoleon acted on the assumption that Wellington’s main battle line was in the village of Waterloo, rather than farther forward, on the ridge.
