From the Ballroom to the Battlefield: British Women and Waterloo
Title | From the Ballroom to the Battlefield: British Women and Waterloo |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Kennedy, Catriona |
Editor | Forrest, Alan, Karen Hagemann, and Jane Rendall |
Book Title | Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820 |
Pagination | 137 - 156 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
City | Basingstoke, UK |
Abstract | This book chapter in the edited volume Soldiers, Citizens and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1790-1820 with essays that discuss the formative experience of those wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians, focuses on the small number of officers' wives and other women present in Brussels during the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. It was common that officers' wives accompanied their spouses on campaigns, they usually stayed in the quarters during battle. Several of the British women and officers' wives present in Brussels and Amsterdam, who had participated in a ball organized by the wife of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, the British army leader, before the battle started, helped after this decisive and bloody battle, in which Napoleon's Army was defeated by britsh and Prussian troops, voluntarily with the care for sick and wounded soldiers. |
URL | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230583290_8 |
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