Waterloo
“The ridge of Mont-Saint-Jean, June 18, 1815, late afternoon. Wellington's squares hold under thundering French cavalry charges. Foreground shows a square of Highlanders firing into Ney's cuirassiers; midground reveals Hougoumont farmhouse burning and Blücher's Prussians arriving on the eastern flank; the Belgian plain steams with smoke and rain beneath a tearing wind.”
