Les Misérables: resumen de Book 1: Waterloo, Chapter 6

Qué sucede

1. Around four o’clock, the English suffer severe losses, with Picton dead, cavalry shattered, Hougomont burning, and La Haie-Sainte captured.
2. Wellington gathers reinforcements at the center, his remaining rallying point on the Mont-Saint-Jean plateau.
3. Buildings, altered hedges, concealed artillery, and tall wheat protect the center, while the nearby forest makes retreat dangerous.
4. Wellington assembles twenty-six battalions and keeps Somerset’s remaining cavalry behind a rise.
5. Under fire, Wellington remains composed and orders Clinton to defend the position without yielding.
6. French fire drives the infantry into a hollow, and Napoleon interprets its disappearance from the crest as retreat.

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En qué fijarte

Napoleon reads the troops’ disappearance as retreat. The line closes the unit with his interpretation of their movement into the hollow.

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