Plans of Quatre Bras and Ligny

J. Booth, editor
The battle of Waterloo: with those of Ligny and Quatre Bras, described by eye-witnesses and by the series of official accounts published by authority. To which are added, Memoirs of F. M. the Duke of Wellington, F. M. Prince Blücher, the Emperor Napoleon…
11th edition, enlarged and corrected, London: L. Booth, 1852
Gg.53.18, folding plate preceding signature b

‘Plans of the Battles of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, June 16, 1815’, from Booth’s much-reprinted work The battle of Waterloo: with those of Ligny and Quatre Bras. The plan gives the misleading impression that the battlefields were almost contiguous.

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