The battle of Waterloo is an occurence with which all England is so well
acquainted, that it would be superfluous to give an account of it here.
We may, however, mention, that the destruction of the French army on
that important occasion, is considered by French historians to be
entirely the consequence of General Bourmont’s desertion. The project of
Napoleon was to concentrate his forces upon the Allied Army suddenly,
which ought to have been done in the night, when the Duke of Wellington
and the English officers were at the ball at Brussels.
On this sanguinary field the French lost 19,000 men, while the Allied
Army sustained a loss of nearly double the number of the former.
[Illustration: NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO.]