The Sound of the Guns: Marshal Grouchy and the Campaign of 1815-An Anthology of Writings

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Grouchy and the fall of an empire

The phrase, 'he met his Waterloo' has entered the English language and almost everyone knows it means that someone, probably powerful, has fallen; contextually the words have most often been applied to those guilty of hubris in no small measure and therefore by implication it has been a ruin deserved. It is, perhaps, not unfair that the vanquishing of Napoleon, Emperor of the French, should have been the phrase's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857066145
• ISBN13: 9780857066145
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"