# Waterloo

Author: Watson, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1856-1922

Genre: Category: History - European

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75682

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Waterloo+Watson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In 1815 the Emperor was no longer a lean, sinewy, tireless, eternally vigilant human tiger--the Napoleon of Rivoli and Marengo. He was no longer the consummate General-in-Chief of Austerlitz and Wagram. The mysterious lethargy which had overwhelmed him at the critical hour of Borodino, when he withheld the order for the Old Guard to charge and convert the Russian defeat into a decisive disaster, had been the first visit of the Evil Genius which was to come again. The strange loss of _the power to decide_ between two totally different lines of action, which, at the Château Düben had kept him idle two days, lolling on a sofa, or sitting at his writing-table tracing on the paper big school-b...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waterloo-75682/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waterloo-75682/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waterloo-75682/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waterloo-75682/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waterloo-75682/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waterloo-75682/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waterloo-75682/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waterloo-75682/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/waterloo-75682/chapters/5/index.md)