World-renowned creator of Napoleon's Last Battles, Napoleon at Leipzig, Bonaparte in Italy, Napoleon at Bay and many simulations, plus a series of Special Studies.

We will visit:

• Paris, the Invalides, military archive and site of Napoleon's tomb. While in Paris we will visit the sites of fighting during 1814, as well as museums and the best military bookshops.
  
  
• Nearby: the Napoleonic residences of Malmaison and Fontainebleau.
  
  
• We travel the route Napoleon took on June 13, 1815, on his way to join the army for the Waterloo campaign.
  
  
• Battlefields of Craonne and Laon (1814).
  
  
• The sites of the French crossing over the Sambre, and the action of Charleroi.
  
  
• The heart of our tour, the battlefields of Ligny, Quatre-Bras, Wavre and Waterloo itself.
  
  
• And follow Napoleon's escape route back to Paris.

Join us on a tour to the battlefields of the glorious campaign of Waterloo. The routes have been carefully crafted to combine history with scenic appeal. The great deeds of the past are almost palpable, there is a memory lingering in the air of these places that makes a visit unforgettable. We will follow in the footsteps of the armies, through towns filled with reminders of a bygone age, past forests and streams, old inns and churches standing just as they were in 1815. We will travel at a comfortable pace, taking time to explore along the way. We will meet local historians and enthusiasts who are familiar with the terrain and conversant with details concerning their locality which are often not recorded in the history books. We will lodge in period inns and enjoy home-cooked specialties of the region.

The history is exciting, but the best part is meeting people. All the localities have put us in touch with local historians in their area. They are enthusiastic to share their knowledge about their past. A number of Napoleonic enthusiasts from Paris and Belgium will accompany us and provide translation.

ITINERARY

We will follow Napoleon's route from the moment he departed Paris to join the army, at 3:30 AM on June 12, 1815, through the battles of June 16 and 18 and his retreat back to Paris. Along the way we will stop to visit some battlefields of 1814 and other famous sites. In some places it will require all our knowledge and imagination to fully realize events of 1815 in the midst of the 20th century. But in other places, the countryside remains the way it was in 1815. Travelling backward in time, we are about to follow the Emperor to join the army in Beaumont. One can hear the roar of distant guns, even above the racket of our carriage wheels on the cobbled pavement.

We are on the road from 8 am to 6 pm. Our itinerary is planned down to the quarter-hour, though we leave the window open to unexpected opportunities.