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True -- but on the Allied side, the exhaustion was mainly economic; a quarter-century on a war economy is not healthy. So it became a question of whose morale would break first... and as Nappy...

So was everyone else -- there were folks in the armies at Waterloo who had *never* known a time when there *wasn't* a war between France and someone (the Rev/Napoleonic Wars lasted *26 years*).

Napoleon understood the difficulty of coordinating multiple forces; it's one of the reasons he came up with "the war of the central position": Keep one's own army together for better coordination...

"Coordinated attacks" weren't really possible back then -- if they happened, it was blind luck; usually, someone (or several someones) didn't leave on time, or got slowed down, or....

And then...

Not even that -- there was an opportunity after Waterloo for Napoleon to rebuild a defensive-only force to keep the Allies out of France proper. Unfortunately for Boney, enough other people knew this...

There's some discussion about that -- Nappy's back had been to the wall before, and he'd pulled it off. Of course, this time he was going up against someone who was even more of a scumbag than...

Heck, Napoleon could still have recovered from Waterloo -- the problem was Fouche and others were taking advantage of his preoccupation to make sure he had no base of support in France when he...

Yes -- I was noting who won.... >;)