Waterloo Remembered Day 10
#WaterlooRemembered Day 10: Mythbusting Waterloo Historians Gareth Glover and Andrew Field join me to explode a wide range of myths about the battle and campaign - what do we think we know that never happened? Was Waterloo irrelevant? Have a listen to hear their takes on these and many more questions. https://anchor.fm/the-napoleonicist/episodes/Waterloo-Remembered-Day-10-Mythbusting-Waterloo-efd6bu
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On a second thought, also the Allies had to trust quite inexperienced commanders, out of the three best Prussian Corps commandery, Yorck, Bülow and Kleist - only Bülow was present. Even Thielmann, who deserted Saxon service in 1813 - was given a corps, and his rude dealing with the Saxons, his old comrades, was rather fuel in the Saxon "mutiny" than to calm down the waves.
I know quite a few Saxons of today, who are interested a lot in their army, and whenever they hear Thielmann - a lot of negative comments are heaped upon him