Military History Contributor

Stephen G. Smith

1 article 2015

Stephen G. Smith contributed to The Weekly Standard, writing about military history and strategy. His work for the magazine included an article on the Duke of Wellington.

Wellington’s Axis

July 6, 2015 · book reviews, Magazine, Books and Arts

The 378 men of the 2nd Light Battalion King’s German Infantry made up a tiny fraction of Wellington’s force of 68,000 at Waterloo, and they are often forgotten amid Napoleon’s massive frontal assaults against the allied line on the heights of Mont-Saint-Jean. Their fierce defense of a farmhouse…