With the Guards During the Waterloo Campaign,1814-15

Part Two: The First Regiment of Foot Guards and the final struggle with Napoleonic France

IMPORTANT: THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK WERE FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2020 AS PART OF,'THE MARCH TO HOUGOUMONT'.

This two volume work follows the campaigns of the First (later Grenadier) Guards, combined with the career of one of its most notable officers of the period, Alexander Fraser, Lord Saltoun during the first years of the 19th century. Britain was at war with its ancient enemy, France and its conflicts of revolution, before much time had elapsed, became the Napoleonic Wars. This book commences at the close of the Peninsular War when the allied armies under the command of the Duke of Wellington had finally pushed the invading French Army back within the borders of its motherland.There followed an all too brief period of peace during which Saltoun married and Napoleon Bonaparte was both exiled to the islandof Elba and had escaped to once again grasp power. Combining history with the letters and recollections of Lord Saltoun together with anecdotes by his fellow officers,the reader will follow the Guards through the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. Saltoun fought with Guards light companies about Hougoumont chateau-farm and upon the allied ridge in the closing stages of the battle. Unscathed during the main fighting, he came closest to death in a minor action, scaling the walls of Peronne during the pursuit to Paris. This final volume of this two- volume set contains many maps and illustrations including views of Hougoumont created especially for this book.

Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.