Battle of Waterloo - Move 11

Table at the start of move 11

Top left – Clinton moves his corps to left of cross roads

Top right – French firefight with highlanders on ridge

Bottom left –Vandamme moves forward in Hougoumont woods

Bottom right – Guard infantry in position to protect d’Erlon’s flank

French Left

French infantry converge on Hougoumont

French have won firefight and routed Dutch infantry far left

French Right

French have routed British on ridge

Guard move forward supported by heavy cavalry

British Left

Half of British infantry have routed from ridge

British light cavalry have routed due to artillery fire

British Right

Wellington has ordered the withdrawal from Hougoumont

British have retreated to cross roads

 Infantry Firefight

Dutch infantry have replaced highlanders who lost first fire fight

Two French brigades engage Dutch in second fire fight and roll 2D6!

Dutch are about to join the highlanders in rout

Wargame rule 12 covers infantry fire fight

Wargame rules can be found at

http://napoleonicwargamerules.blogspot.com/

 Table at end of Game

Game Note

Napoleon has taken Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte and right hand ridge

4 out of 16 British infantry brigades are in rout

2 out of 4 British cavalry brigades are in rout

Halt of the British artillery have been wiped out

Wellington has ordered a general retreat

Most of Wellington’s army is in good order to cover the retreat

All of Napoleon’s army is available to fight next day

British casualties 1800 infantry, 300 cavalry and 800 gunners

French casualties 800 infantry, 300 cavalry and 100 gunners

The result is a convincing French victory

The British are not destroyed, but are too weak to fight a second day