After Augerau's corps had been almost completely destroyed by massed artillery fire at Eylau in 1807 Napoleon used his cavalry by means of shock action, to hold up the Austrian advance until he had his forces reorganised. When Blucher's troops first became visible at Waterloo, 1815, and Napoleon had realised that they were not Grouchy's, he despatched first the cavalry of Domont and Subervie to try to delay the approach of the columns. Note the efforts made by mounted infantry to delay the approach of the counterattack commandoes led by De Wet, which arrived at the critical phase of the battle of Paardeburg, February 1900. Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 102 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1970 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com