The Battle for Saint Amand
General Ziethen from the Prussian 1st Corps, gazed out form the village of St Amand de la Haye. Across the fields of grain he could clearly see the standards of the IIIrd Corps of the French Army of the North. Here, he thought, in this scattered settlement, would the French hammer fall. His Corps had been conducting a series of fighting withdrawals ever since Napoleon crossed the River Sambre at Charleroi on 15 June 1815. The Prussian Army of the Lower Rhein had been ordered to concentrate at the village of Sombreffe, also hoping to link up with the allied forced under the command of The Duke Wellington. Ziethen turned his horse and started back towards I Corps headquarters, his Prussians were out numbered, and too many of them were new Landwehr, boys mostly. But all they had to do was hold on and make Napoleon's soldiers pay in blood for every brick of this village. The Game After a lot of discussions and organising it was time to play our second scena...
