CHAPTER II HOUGOMONT Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, the f...
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Volume II Cosette BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO CHAPTER I WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES ...
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CHAPTER III THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's r...
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CHAPTER VI FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army...
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CHAPTER V THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this bat...
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CHAPTER IV A Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo have only to...
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CHAPTER X THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN The battery was unmasked at the same moment with the r...
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CHAPTER IX THE UNEXPECTED There were three thousand five hundred of them. They formed a front a...
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CHAPTER VII NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a ...
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CHAPTER XIII THE CATASTROPHE The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. The army yielded sudden...
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CHAPTER XII THE GUARD Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle brok...
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CHAPTER XI A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW The painful surprise of Napoleon is w...
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CHAPTER XVI QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? The battle of Waterloo is an enigma. It is as obscure to those...
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CHAPTER XV CAMBRONNE If any French reader object to having his susceptibilities offended, one w...
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CHAPTER XIV THE LAST SQUARE Several squares of the Guard, motionless amid this stream of the de...
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