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the book is engagingly written and provides a strong 'human interest' picture of the political background, the challenges faced by a multi-national and multi-lingual army, and the difficulties of recording events on a smoke-filled and reputation-making battlefield. A welcome supplement to a Napoleonic library. -- Chris Jarvis Miniature Wargames - Chris Jarvis 'This is essential reading for anyone wishing to get an accurate take on what actually happened, and who was actually involved at the infamous battle of Waterloo. Veronica Baker-Smith writes on the premise that we don't realise or don't remember that not all of Wellington's troops were British subjects, and in that she is absolutely right - I would never have given it a thought had this wonderful book not turned up. Surely the time is right for a documentary to set the record straight, based on Veronica's excellent research?' -- Paul Norman Books Monthly 17/02/2016 By perusing Belgian and Dutch archives, memoirs, and histories, she has put together an impressive study of the role of the largely overlooked - not to say dismissed and even denigrated - Dutch-Belgian troops who made up about a third of Wellington's army during the campaign. She makes an excellent case that these troops, and the often belittled Prince of Orange who commanded them, made a solid contribution to the Allied victory, on several occasions playing a critical role...a valuable addition to the literature on Waterloo NYMAS

By perusing Belgian and Dutch archives, memoirs, and histories, she has put together an impressive study of the role of the largely overlooked - not to say dismissed and even denigrated - Dutch-Belgian troops who made up about a third of Wellington's army during the campaign. She makes an excellent case that these troops, and the often belittled Prince of Orange who commanded them, made a solid contribution to the Allied victory, on several occasions playing a critical role....a valuable addition to the literature on Waterloo * NYMAS * the book is engagingly written and provides a strong `human interest' picture of the political background, the challenges faced by a multi-national and multi-lingual army, and the difficulties of recording events on a smoke-filled and reputation-making battlefield. A welcome supplement to a Napoleonic library. * Miniature Wargames - Chris Jarvis * `This is essential reading for anyone wishing to get an accurate take on what actually happened, and who was actually involved at the infamous battle of Waterloo. Veronica Baker-Smith writes on the premise that we don't realise or don't remember that not all of Wellington's troops were British subjects, and in that she is absolutely right - I would never have given it a thought had this wonderful book not turned up. Surely the time is right for a documentary to set the record straight, based on Veronica's excellent research?' * Books Monthly 17/02/2016 *

the book is engagingly written and provides a strong `human interest' picture of the political background, the challenges faced by a multi-national and multi-lingual army, and the difficulties of recording events on a smoke-filled and reputation-making battlefield. A welcome supplement to a Napoleonic library. * Miniature Wargames - Chris Jarvis * By perusing Belgian and Dutch archives, memoirs, and histories, she has put together an impressive study of the role of the largely overlooked - not to say dismissed and even denigrated - Dutch-Belgian troops who made up about a third of Wellington's army during the campaign. She makes an excellent case that these troops, and the often belittled Prince of Orange who commanded them, made a solid contribution to the Allied victory, on several occasions playing a critical role....a valuable addition to the literature on Waterloo * NYMAS * ...an excellent account of the contribution of the newly formed (and short-lived) United Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Allied victory in the Waterloo campaign, and one that brings an often neglected part of Wellington's army into focus. * History of War * `This is essential reading for anyone wishing to get an accurate take on what actually happened, and who was actually involved at the infamous battle of Waterloo. Veronica Baker-Smith writes on the premise that we don't realise or don't remember that not all of Wellington's troops were British subjects, and in that she is absolutely right - I would never have given it a thought had this wonderful book not turned up. Surely the time is right for a documentary to set the record straight, based on Veronica's excellent research?' * Books Monthly 17/02/2016 *

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Veronica Baker-Smith lived in the Netherlands for seventeen years, and her work in the Dutch archives resulted in An Alien Patriot: the Life of Anna van Hannover, for the Thomas Browne Institute of the University of Leiden. She is also the author of Royal Discord - a study of the family of George II

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