Cavalry Charge La Haie Sainte Plancenoit The French and Prussian Attacks

Following on from Hougoumont and DErlons Attack Part III starts just as the great battle reaches its crisis point Marshal Ney launched thousands of Frances finest heavy cavalry against Wellingtons thinning lines who had already taken a terrible battering on the Mont St Jean Ridge Wave after wave of armoured horsemen broke against the steady squares of British DutchBelgian and German troops The crisis however took a further turn for the worse as the key bastion in Wellingtons centre the fortified farm of La Haie Sainte fell to the French onslaught The way to Brussels was now open and Wellington muttered Give me Blucher or give me night With the situation looking bleaker by the second for Wellington and his troops Napoleon fatefully hesitated to complete the coup de grace as the Prussians had closed in on his right flank at the Village of Plancenoit Would the Young Guard be able to hold Bluchers men There was all still to play for