Note 24 — Chapter VIII · Napoleon (continued).

“Si le maréchal Grouchy eût campé devant Wavre le soir du 17, l’armée prussienne n’eut fait aucun détachment pour secourir l’armée anglaise.”—Correspondence, vol. xxxi., p. 213. No doubt Grouchy could not have reached Wavre on the night of the 17th, but he might have been there at 11 A.M. on the morning of the 18th; and the result would have been practically the same. Bülow would not have attacked, or perhaps even approached Waterloo, had he been isolated.