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It wasn't known to me that prisoners were finished off.
I thought the British and French were two respectable armies.
When the French regiments crossed the field at Bligny, in the late afternoon, their brass shone under the sun and reflected the light, it was an amzing sight.
The Prussians, under General Bluecher, surrendered in mass, the rest retreated. It was two days before the Battle of Waterloo.
Napoleon had sent one third of his army after the retreating Prussians, and these French soldiers were not present at Waterloo, where-as the remaining Prussians arrived in the late afternoon to reinforce the British.
Meanwhile, as Napoleon had fallen ill during the battle owing to an illness and was absent for a while, one of his generals rode off with the cavalry - 5,000 horse - against the British foot regiments and lost almost every man.
On waking up, Napoleon, without any cavalry left, and after the Prussians had arrived, decided to send the infantry forward, and that was his downfall.
Had he waited an hour, night would have come, and the two armies would have left the field. He'd have had the chance to regroup with the 30,000 French soldiers who had been tracking the Prussians.
