THE ONLY WAY TO CONSIDER THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.
"The only way to consider the military merits of the battle of Waterloo, is to ask ourselves one question, What would have been our fate if es had been reversed ?—if instead of Blucher's coming to our aswith seventy thousand men during the battle, we had remained ktc Al, whilst soventy thousand fresh troops had arrived to the as
, tho Fr( nch This would have made all the difference."—
ek,ed have made all the difference, not only in the whole posture of the case. The Duke of WEL' ■:1) his positions in advance of Brussels on the calcuco-:Tin-Mimi; and had he not expected, as he did, men, but on the contrary anticipated, Lee reinforcement of the French force to that amount, he would never have occupied the ground of Waterloo, and there would have been no baffle of that name to discuss the merits of. The If of our ingenious contemporary, introduced to try the merits of the case, has just the effect of entirely altering its conditions.
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