Talk:Hundred Days

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February 2017

Also see the section above this one (#Please explain why you think "on the morning" is better than "in the morning" on the talk page...)

Since my last edit there have been a number of edits some of them were reverts of my last revert edits, despite the fact that that there was not a consensus for them per

WP:BRD
. To help stabilise the situation I am going to list the reverts I am making and the reason for them:

  • The diff from which I am working. The removals are in red
  1. removed "accompanied by the municipal body," — it is better as a clause because the sentence can be constructed without the clause "Count Chabrol addressed Louis XVIII in..."
  2. Cosmetic changes such as removing a space in "British involvement" — I will not comment on any other such changes.
  3. "with some 1,000 men, and landed at Golfe-Juan, between Cannes and Antibes, on 1 March 1815" — an Oxford comma is not needed before the and as there is no other "and" in the sentence there is no need to distinguish sub-clauses. The other commas are not needed, but in this case I will leave the in place as they do no harm, but in other places where I think they are unhelpfulbI will revert them without further comment. If another party disagrees with the revert then please discuss them further on this talk page before reverting reverts.
  4. ''"If any of you will shoot his Emperor, here I am."'' The added double single quotes turns the quote in to italics. This is contrary to the MOSS see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics and quotations so I am removing all such changes.
  5. "ought to be brought to Paris in an iron cage" the source does not have it as a quote and it may well be paraphrasing (particularly as the original was in French) — so I am removing the quotes and they should not be put back without a inline citation to back them up.
  6. Lanjuinais —I have left the initial full name uncovered by an intermediate edit, but have made an alteration to the text (not a revert) to remove the second link to a mention of the man (per
    MOS:DUPLINK
    ).
  7. south west —I have put back the hyphen (south-west) for all such compass points (see
    MOS:COMPASS
    ).
  8. I have reverted the change "At the Congress of Vienna, the Great Powers of Europe" to "At the Congress of Vienna, the Great Powers of Europe (Austria, Great Britain, Prussia and Russia)" because the Concert of Europe is a post Napoleonic era term and linking to it is unhelpful: see Quadruple Alliance (1815) and the Holy Alliance, as well as the Concert of Europe to see why.
  9. I have removed the addition of "
    95th Foot, in this case they would probably be closer to the Levée en masse of the early revolutionary wars. This is a highly controversial issue, because of the attitude of the Prussians towards guerilla warfare verged on fanatical hatred and it lasted in successor German armies up until the the destruction of the Wehrmacht at the end of Second World War (see Martens Clause
    ).
  10. reverted "small-scale combat" to "in detail" — "in detail" is a term of art and is not the same as "small-scale combat" for example the Battle of Ligny was not "small-scale combat". I have linked it to the article Defeat in detail
  11. reverted "drove for the Prussian outposts" to "drove in the Prussian outposts" it is a different meaning of drove this meanin is "smashed in" not the "driving" of animals attached to carts (or the driving of motorcars).
  12. reverted "placing their forces at Mont-Saint-Jean," to "and secured Napoleon's favoured "central position". This shows a total misunderstanding of the campaign. Mont-Saint-Jean was not the central position it was close to the centre of Wellington's cantonments (his headquarters were in Brussels). Napoleon did not get there until the 18th of June he was driving the wedge as the paragraph starts by saying on the 15th of June.
  13. revert "who had died shortly" to " to "where she had died shortly" the significance is to the place where she died.
  14. revert "addressed the king" to "addressed the King" see
    MOS:JOBTITLES
    bullet point 2.
  15. revert "which were known to harbour many royalists" to "which were known to contain many royalists" for the reasons given both in the previous section and in this tea house archive.
  16. reverted "with sufficient numbers of experienced troops" to "with a leavening of experienced troops" the metaphor of "leavening" is cleared as it explains what was sufficient and why.
  17. reverted "turning on 28 June to oppose the 40,000" to "turning on 28 June to check the 40,000". "check" explains the reason for turning it iwas what in military terminology is called a "holding action" see for example: "The Union Army of Virginia was saved from destruction by an effective rearguard action and hasty retreat across Bull Run Creek" (Murray, Professor of Archaeology Tim; Murray, Tim (December 2009), Memoirs of a Texan: War, FastPencil Inc, p. 103,
    action at Genappe
    (17 June 1815)

-- PBS (talk) 17:45, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Switzerland and Liechtenstien

Were Switzerland and Liechtenstein really belligerents during this period ? I don't see any mention of them. --21stCenturySloth (talk) 11:50, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"Inconstant" carried 1,000 men?

Under the heading "Return to France", the second sentence states "On 26 February 1815, when the British and French guard ships were absent, he slipped away from Portoferraio on board the French brig Inconstant with some 1,000 men and landed at Golfe-Juan..." (emphasis added). This is confusingly written, as it suggests that there were "some 1,000 men" aboard the "Inconstant" with Napoleon; an impossibility. That ship was a mere 96 feet long, and normally carried no more than 160 men. There would be no space aboard such a small ship to fit 1,000 men, and their weight would have sunk her! Perhaps the bulk of the men were borne by other craft that accompanied the "Inconstant". Can someone more knowledgeable about this particular incident rewrite this to clarify? Bricology (talk) 20:52, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've added some details of Napoleon's fleet. Tevildo (talk) 06:43, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Kingdom of France" versus "France"

I'm not exactly clear on why the troops of the deposed Napoleon escaping from Elba count in the belligerents list as representing "France" while the actual government of France after Napoleon was deposed is relegated to being the "Kingdom of France". Shouldn't the belligerents on Napoleon's side be identified as "Bonapartists" at this point rather than as if they were "France"? Zachary Klaas (talk) 14:58, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 14 August 2022

Spekkios (talk) 03:14, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply
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