Yours to Reason Why: Decision in Battle
by William Seymour
'If Cleopatra's nose had been a centimetre longer, the whole face of the world would have been changed'. We all know that the historical parlour game of ‘What lf... ?’ can be deeply fascinating, and perhaps nowhere more so than in the field of military history, where matters of vast moment can sometimes be decided by a single individual in the space of a few minutes. What if Napoleon at Waterloo had decided to recall Grouchy to the battlefield? What if Lee at Gettysburg had resisted the fatal impulse to launch Pickett's final charge?
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