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Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 --- Anglesey, Henry William Paget,

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Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself to a succession of rich men. Becky's fortunes are contrasted with those of her best friend Amelia, who has none of Becky's wit and vitality but whose gentle-heartedness attracts the devotion of the loyal Dobbin. Set during the Napoleonic wars, Vanity Fair follows Becky as she cuts a swathe through Regency society. Thackeray paints a panoramic portrait of the age, with war, money and national identity his great subjects. The battle for social success is as fierce as the battle of Waterloo, and its casualties as stricken. The satire is at once biting and profound, sparing none in a clear-eyed exposure of a world on the make. Thackeray's skepticism of human motives borders on cynicism yet Vanity Fair is among the funniest novels of the Victorian age. This new edition includes all Thackeray's original illustrations. - Publisher.

Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 --- British --- Female friendship --- Social classes --- Married women --- England

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History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- Napoleon I Bonaparte [Emperor of the French] --- anno 1800-1899 --- Waterloo --- Waterloo [Battle of ], Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 --- Battlefields --- Guidebooks

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Originally published in 1844, this two-volume work by William Siborne (1797-1830) represented the first major history of the Waterloo Campaign that was based on eyewitness accounts. Although Siborne, an infantry officer, had not served in the campaign himself, he did write to scores of officers who had, and their replies provided him with information he later used to construct the famous but controversial model of the field at Waterloo, which earned him the enmity of the Duke of Wellington (largely because Siborne's view of events conflicted with the Duke's). Siborne used much of the material for this book, which covers the entire campaign from Napoleon's escape from Elba in February 1815, through the battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo, right up to the Allies' entry into Paris in July. The maps published in a third volume can be viewed online. Volume 2 covers the greater part of the Battle of Waterloo and its aftermath.

Napoleon I, Emperor Of The French, 1769-1821 --- Gleig, George Robert, 1796-1888 --- Waterloo, Battle Of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 --- Biography & Autobiography --- History