<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All:<div><br></div><div>This just came across the transom …</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11144216/Map-error-hastened-Napoleons-Waterloo-defeat.html"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11144216/Map-error-hastened-Napoleons-Waterloo-defeat.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>The argument is that Napoleon used a <b>printed</b> map derived from a <b>manuscript</b> map, and both were wrong, so that Napoleon misplaced his artillery.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know enough about the events of the battle, but I'm pretty sure that the French were not printing battle maps at this point . . . does anyone have a better and non-journalistic account?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Matthew</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">---------------------<br><br>Matthew Edney<br><br>Osher Professor in the History of Cartography (USM)<br><br>Director, History of Cartography Project (UW)<br><br>See <a href="http://www.maphistorydirectory.org/index.php/User:Edney.Matthew">http://www.maphistorydirectory.org/index.php/User:Edney.Matthew</a><br><br><br><br></div>
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