Waterloo 1815 La Haye Sainte

Description

• Type: Diorama accessories
• Period: Napoleonic Wars
• Country: Others
• SKILL: 3
• Model Dim.: 56 x 41 cm
• Box Dim.: 440 x 270 x 70 mm
• Scale 1:72

From the 16th to the 18th of June, the French troops and the Allied troops clashed on the battlefields of Belgium. The battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras were only the proem of the most famous and well-known battles in military history. Date and place: 18th June 1815, Waterloo. Wellington considered the farm of La Haie Sainte a strategic point of his defensive line. In the afternoon, Napoleon ordered Marshal Ney to launch an assault on the farm in order to obtain a significant outpost. The farm was strenuously defended by Allied troops, that had fortified the buildings since the morning. The clash was fierce and the French troops, supported by artillery, were able to conquer La Haie Sainte only in the late afternoon. At 7 p.m., thanks to the strategic value of the farm, the French Imperial Guard can start the assault but it is too late. Prussian troops led by Blucher, vainly searched by Marshal Grouchy, break on the battlefield to support British Army.

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