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08 Imperial Guard attacks Wellington

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With his forces temporaril­y holding off the Prussians at Plancenoit, Napoleon went on one last major offensive. He sent the supposedly undefeatab­le Imperial Guard into Wellington’s army’s centre in an attempt to break through and attack his flanks from within. While the guard had some success breaching multiple lines of the Coalition force, it was eventually overrun by Wellington’s numericall­y superior infantry and wiped out.

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