Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher

Aging hussar general who kept a promise on a ruined army’s legs

Beaten at Ligny two days earlier, Blücher was nearly killed under his horse. He got up, pointed his wrecked army west, and marched toward the guns. Waterloo is a British memory. The Prussian arrival is why it ended.

The flank march from Ligny to Waterloo.