Here's a fun question to kick off the discussion for #WaterlooRemembered. Was Waterloo actually a battle Napoleon could have won? As we deliberately have to indulge in counterfactuals here, we have to be careful, but it might be interesting for people to share their thoughts on what would have had to have been different for Napoleon to win the battle. I'll keep quiet with my thoughts initially, but remember to tune in to the Napoleonicist each day, as the turning points of the campaign is one of many topics I am discussing with experts over the course of the Waterloo Remembered series.
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I’ve always found the Lobau argument is unlikely. That Corps wasn’t even deployed at the time I Corps went into the attack. The Prussians attacked prematurely because had they waited for full concentration they’d not have been able to enter the fray before 6 or 7.