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17 de jun. de 2015 · 17 June 2015. Waterloo’s Prussian Hero: Blücher and the British. In the summer of 1814, with Napoleon defeated and exiled to Elba, Britons were eagerly welcoming a military hero of the campaign against the French to their shores.
At about 9 pm on the 18 June 1815, two British and Prussian generals, the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshall Blücher, met at a farm just south of Waterloo called La Belle Alliance. They had just beaten Napoleon I in battle, and Blücher was keen to call the battle ‘Die Schlacht von Belle-Alliance’, in […]
One of Wellington's ADCs reaches Blücher at 11 pm on 17 June, informing the Prussian general that the British general would fight a defensive battle at Waterloo. Blücher, after consultation with Gneisenau, resolves to send Bülow's 4th corps to attack the enemy's right flank.
SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser built by the German Empire. She was designed to match what German intelligence incorrectly believed to be the specifications of the British Invincible-class battlecruisers.
Although the Blücher was much improved compared to its predecessors, it got obsolete with the introduction of the British Invincible class battlecruisers, and despite this knowledge, the Blücher operated together with other battlecruisers in the fleet to increase the number of ships available for the reconnaissance forces.
After Napoleon's return in 1815, Blücher took command of the Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine and coordinated his force with that of the British and Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington. At the Battle of Ligny, he was severely injured and the Prussians retreated.
31 de dic. de 2017 · Unfortunatey for the Germans, when the Blücher emerged as completed in October 1909, the British were already starting the construction of their second generation battlecruisers, and she was obsolete. Despite of this and due to her 28,532,000 Goldmarks price tag, she was deployed with the battlecruiser squadron. SMS Blücher in 1912
