Hi Mr. Cornwell.
I’ve thought of an alternative scenario to Waterloo that I’d like to run by you. What if, on June 17th, instead of heading north to confront Wellington at Mt. St. Jean, Napoleon had decided to follow up his victory at Ligny by pursuing the Prussians with most of his army, intending to destroy Blucher and take him out of the equation, while leaving Ney with the rest to form a rear-guard to keep Wellington off of his back? Would this have caused things to turn out differently for him?
Alan Kempner