Wellington's Hidden Heroes

“ A n excellent account of the contribution of the newly formed (and short-lived) United Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Allied victory” ( HistoryO fW ar.org ). The Dutch-Belgians have been variously described as inexperienced, incompetent, and cowardly, a rogue element in the otherwise disciplined Allied Army. It is only now being tentatively acknowledged that they alone saved Wellington from disaster at Quatre Bras. He had committed a strategic error in that, as Napoleon advanced, his own tr