There never seems to be any time for anything really fun anymore for me. Not that I ever had time in almost being worked to death as a child literally in my first literal physical collapse, but at least then I still had some time to garden, build, train animals or read for fun.........I once had a time I could even think for fun.
At this moment, I sit on TL's love seat, and I ponder for fun, or more for setting the record straight as too much propaganda has ensued and now too much ignorance abounds on subjects which people should actually know something about.
It is not a great secret that I relish warfare in artistic forms from Chess to actual battle. One battle often spoken of in passing is Waterloo, where Napoleon met his ruling end.
Waterloo is interesting as Napoleon in all form is an archetype of the anti Christ as Adolf Hitler was, as Antiochos Epiphanes was. Napoleon applied the same measures of brilliant bribery statesmanship with annexation of territories while using his military most effectively.
Waterloo took place, because the Euroean powers had exiled Napoleon to his own island, where he escaped and appeared in Europe and overthrew the government and rallied his troops again.
The European powers at the time were led by the Duke of Wellington, who was a most capable general, but we focus upon Waterloo, that front before Brussels which the Duke was protecting in the lowlands from Napoleon's host.
Waterloo was a falling back point really, where the Duke of Wellington had spied out the year previously as a very choice location for the defense of Brussels. The battlefield is a small valley one half mile wide and several miles long going east west.
Napoleon was on the north hills and Wellington on the south. The flanks were formed by small hamlets and in Wellington's rear was an open forest most effect for retreat of cannon and cavalry if it came to that with infantry holding the retreat.
On the British left miles away were the Prussians. A most effective group of Soldiers, and finding that Napoleon was not to attack them, almost wholly arose under their fine General Blucher to come to Wellington's aid at Waterloo.
Wellington as did Napoleon, lost around 1/3rd of their armies, which was a horrific slaughter, and Wellington in reality had no real battle plan, except to hold his ground to the last man, and in some cases it almost came to that, as the Duke bravely rode up and down the lines of battle encouraging his men.
The last assault on the British center had Wellington giving the command to rise to attack. Only one of his aids was still with him at the end of the battle, as all were dead or wounded.
Napoleon spent his infantry, his cavalry and his cannon on Wellington who absorbed his own losses in the struggle. The French heavy cavalry was wasted in charges of the British formations in square.
A square is just that in armed infantry with bayonet fixed outward, where cavalry rides up and is shot, or they try to back their horses into the bayonet to break the ranks. All horrid warfare in the waste for horse flesh.
Wellington after Napoleon was last neutralized at approximately 6 pm, ordered the advance, before Napoleon could order another organized fierce attack, and that is where the rout began. It was though not before grape and cannister had blown gaping hopes time and again in the British ranks.
As stated too much has been written about this battle, including Napoleon's critique, and all were wrong. It was a savage fight, but it did not need to be, but was given to Wellington as God had promised this in the Bible that the sons of Joseph would rule the world in the British and Americans.
The key to the battle was the British left. It had the worthless Belgium troops who would have fought for Napoleon, and what required to be done was for Napoleon in the late start due to rains, only sent his cavalry wide for a rear attack on that flank.
Cannon would have pinned down the the Wellington lines, and a feint at the British center would have held them there, as the flanking operation took place on the left.
The French did hold ground eventually on the right flank, but the reality is that as General Thomas Jackson and General Nathan Bedford Forest proved in the American Civil War, that a force attack on flank and rear, would make a military line turn, and once in motion, that line would then begin to roll up on itself for a rout.
I do not state the Wellington and the English would have simply ran away, as the English never did such things in that era, but once outflanked, the English would have been in motion, and in turning, the Napoleon cannon would have chewed gaping holes in the lines, whereby having troops reeling back upon them, the cavalry would have cut through and devastated the lines front and back.
Doing this, the cannon of the English would have been ineffectual or lost. The forest retreat would have been cut off, and in regrouping Wellington could have held his right, but in flanked there, he would have been surrounded.
This would have taken place hours before the Prussians came up to join the battle with their army.
Wellington prepared for a frontal assault from Napoleon which took place, but if Napoleon would have instead followed a General George S. Patton doctrine as was in the operational plans of General Stonewall Jackson, of grabbing your enemy by the nose and kicking them in the pants or as stated Napoleon with artillery and infantry feint grabbed Wellingtons front, while the heavy French cavalry hit them on the left flank and rear, the immovable stone of Wellington would have become the shattered rock of Waterloo, and the effective end of the British empire.
Do not overlook that another General was on the field in that era, and he was facing the cream of the Wellington red coats, in the American, Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans.
Those were the troops who had ripped Napoleon's armies to shreds and his generals, but by effective surpise attack, effective cannon regulated fire, and most effective Kentucky and Tennessee riflemen, Old Hickory destroyed the best of Wellington's men ever to go to field in that epic battle and he set his tactics similar to the Duke of Wellington against Napoleon.
I am quite confident, that I could have with Napoleon's army, crushed Wellington at Waterloo with his entire military by 3 pm. I would have then wheeled on the fatigued Prussians and left them buried in the mud. It all had to do with flanking and rear attack, which Wellington could not have wheeled for, for if he did engage, the Napoleon infantry would have struck in the front fully creating two flanks on Wellington.
It is all the Lord of the Battle. The American House of Joseph was to rule that side of the Atlantic and the British House of Joseph was to rule the other side of the Atlantic. It is why the red coats prevailed at Waterloo and were wiped out at New Orleans. It was Jesus and that Heavenly host.
In any event, I am finished playing with this set of generals.
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