Napoleonic Wars

There were many great ones including the well known Michel Ney.

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The best Marshal of France during the Napoleonic War was Louis Davout not only for his great gifts of commander but also his great competence in administration and logistic.

It is generally thought that hadn't Napoleon left him in Paris as Minister of War, but entrusted him with an active task on the field, the outcome of the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo could have been far different.

It's about 12 miles south of Brussels in Belgium, that's the battlefield, not the London train station !

An inexact question. The cause of the Hundred Days campaign in which the battle took place was the return of Napoleon Bonaparte from exile on the island of Elba.

Most importantly for the defending British it was very, very wet ! A thunderstorm had made it sodden. A shallow valley the British stood on Mont St Jean. The French right is broken ground and on their left is the Chateau Hougoumont. In the centre lies la Haie Saint. The KGL and the 95th await messieurs....

The US Civil War was our last war fought with muskets. The Civil War was a transitioning phase to metalic cartridges, that we still use today. When US Civil War soldiers fired their muskets/rifles there was no spent shell casing to eject from the weapon. Only a lead ball or minie bullet came out of the muzzle (minie bullet was shaped like today's bullet...long missile shaped). Some Spencer repeating rifles were used (the transitioning phase) in which spent copper shell cases were ejected from the weapons.

Yes, the battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18th June 1815.