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SUMMARY:The Longest Afternoon: How Four Hundred Germans Decided the Battle
  of Waterloo - Prof. Brendan Simms ( History of International Relations\, 
 Cambridge University)
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:The battle of Waterloo is one of the most examined episodes in
  history. Remarkably\, however\, there is no individual study of the event
  on which the whole struggle hinged: the epic defence of the vital farmhou
 se of La Haye Sainte at the heart of the battlefield by the riflemen of th
 e Second Light\nBattalion\, the King's German Legion\, under their intrepi
 d commander Major Georg Baring between about 1.30 and 6.30 pm on Sunday 18
 th June 1815. Beset on all sides by French infantry\, shelled by Napoleon'
 s guns\, and ridden down by the emperor's cavalry whenever they ventured o
 ut of their burning buildings\, Baring's men were eventually forced to wit
 hdraw with heavy casualties\, not before they had delayed Napoleon for fiv
 e critical hours. A mere four hundred men had decided the battle of Waterl
 oo and with it the fate of Europe. Prof. Simms will offer some preliminary
  remarks on his project which is in its infancy.
LOCATION:Seminar Room N7\, Pembroke College
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