Click2Flicks - Vanity Fair - Waterloo Illustrated - Chapter 5

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>VANITY FAIR</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 5 - WATERLOO ILLUSTRATED</p></b></font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">One of the most important battles in the history of warfare took place fourteen years before the <a target="_blank" href="images/worlds.first.photograph.jpg"><b>world’s first photograph</b></a> (called <a href="http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/2002/mar/photograph/" target="_blank"><b>a heliograph</b></a>) was made by the Frenchman, <a href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/3.html" target="_blank"><b>Joseph Nicéphore Niépce</b></a>. But the U.S. Military Academy’s annotated maps, and other drawings and paintings of the battle scenes, permit us a trip back in time to view the maneuvers and witness the carnage left behind.</p><ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/situation.jpg"><b>Situation</b></a> on 1 June 1815 - depicts location and strength of opposing forces.</li><br><br> <li>Troops in and around Brussels on 16 June 1815 - shows <a target="_blank" href="images/movements.jpg"><b>movements</b></a> after June 1st.</li><br><br> <li>Situation at 8 p.m. on the 16th of June 1815 - reflects <a target="_blank" href="images/major.action.jpg"><b>major action</b></a> at Quatre-Bras and Ligny.</li><br><br> <li>Midnight (on June 17-18) - Wellington, Blücher and Napoleon are <a target="_blank" href="images/moving.into.jpg"><b>moving into</b></a> battle positions in the vicinity of Brussels.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/10am.jpg"><b>10 a.m.</b></a> on June 18th - opposing forces are largely <a target="_blank" href="images/in.position.jpg"><b>in position</b></a> on the <a target="_blank" href="images/waterloo.battlefield.jpg"><b>Waterloo Battlefield</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>Battlefield positions at <a target="_blank" href="images/4pm.jpg"><b>4 p.m.</b></a> on the 18th of June - Napoleon still thinks he will win.</li><br><br> <li>Battlefield positions at <a target="_blank" href="images/7.30pm.jpg"><b>7:30 p.m.</b></a> on the evening of June 18 - Napoleon has “met his Waterloo.”</li></ul> <p>At the end of the battle, the casualties were staggering.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="vanity_fair_ch4.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="vanity_fair_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="vanity_fair_ch6.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>