The controverted points relating to the cam paign of Waterloo provide abundance of material delayed their arrival. Whether he could have done this, in the condition of the roads, is. how ever, doubtful. The wisdom of Napoleon in detaching so large a force for a pursuit that rest ed upon an inference which the issue proved to be mistaken is certainly open to question. When this had been done. Napoleon failed to keep Grouchy sufficiently informed of the exact situa tion and its needs.
BIBLIOGRAPHY. The literature relating to the Bibliography. The literature relating to the campaign of Waterloo is extensive, much being controversial and much unreliable. The best and most impartial critical study from all points of view is that of J. C. Ropes, The Campaign of Waterloo (New York. 1892). This is accom panied by an atlas of fourteen maps. There is a partial list of works relating to the campaign, and the important documents and dispatches are given in appendices. J. W. de Peyster published in New York three pamphlets, Waterloo, the Campaign and Battle; Waterloo, more properly Belle Alliance; and The Prussians in the Cam paign of Waterloo, and also a list of Authorities (New York. 1894), which will be of some service to the student. A bibliography of the campaign with critical estimates was prepared in 1875 by Justin Winsor, and published in Bulletin ,Vo. 35 of the Public Library of the City of Boston. Colonel Chesney's Waterloo Lectures are accompanied by a list of authorities cited. J. Shaw Kennedy, Notes on the Battle of Waterloo (London. 18651, is cited as an anthority on the tactics of the battle. Maurice, War (ib., 1891),
contains in the appendix a reference list for the campaign of Waterloo. with comments and esti mates. The classic account by Thiers, (Paris. 1862), is unreliable and colored strongly by the author's admiration for Napoleon. The same is true of La Tour d'Auvergne, Wafcrloo (ib.. 1870). Charms, llistoire de la campanile de 1815 (Leipzig). and Quinet. Ilistoire de la cam panile de 1,115 (Paris, 1852), are almost equally severe in their criticism of Napoleon. Consult also Houssaye, 1815-Waterloo (Paris, 1898). In addition to that of Ropes, the most valuable works in English are Chesney, Waterloo Lec tures (London. 1S74) ; Gardner, Quatre-Bras, Lignq. and Waterloo lib.. 1882); O'Connor Alor ris. The Campaign of 1815 (ib., 1000), the most recent contribution to the subject, and Siborne, History of the War in France and Belgium in 1815 (ib.. 1844). H. T. Siborne has also pub lished a valuable collection of Waterloo Letters (London. 1891), side-lights on the campaign from the correspondence of British officers. In German are Clausewitz, Der Febl-.-ny von, 181,7 in Frankreieh (Berlin, 1862). and 011sch, Ge sehiehte des Feldzuges eon 1815 nach archiral ischen (Mellen (ib., 1876). The student of the campaign will find in these works expression of the different views upon the campaign, and an examination of the reference lists mentioned and of the critical notes of different writers will guide him in a fuller search of the primary and secondary sources. See NAPOLEON 1.