 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mukati memazuva ane zana Durutte akaungana kuna Napoleon. Akapiwa basa rokutungamirira 4th Division yaJean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte dErlons I Corps. Aitungamirirwa nemabhatani masere e8th, 29th, 85th, uye 95th Line Infantry Regiments. 8th uye 29th dzakatungamirirwa naJean-Gaudens-Claude Pégot, nepo 85th uye 95th dzakatungamirirwa naJean-Louis Brue. Musi wa 16 Chikumi 1815, mutungamiri wake wemuuto dErlon akagamuchira mirairo inopesana kubva kumukuru wake wechikamu Marshal Michel Ney uye mumwe wevabatsiri vaNapoleon, Charles de la Bédoyère. Pashure pokutevera murairo wade la Bédoyère wokufamba kuenda kuLigny, ipapo akagamuchira murairo waNey wokurangarira. Asvika pedyo nenhandare apo Hondo yeLigny yakanga ichitsvaira, dErlon akasarudza kuparadzanisa chikamu chaDurutte neuto raCharles Claude Jacquinot. Sezvo dErlon akadzokera kumapapiro aNey nemamwe mapoka ake matatu ehondo, rairo yake bedzi kuna Durutte yakanga iri kuva akangwara. Jacquinot akachenesa nzira yevarwi vePrussian, asi Durutte akamira pamusha weWagnelée, kunyange sezvo zvakava pachena kuti vaPrussian vakanga vachidzokera shure. Brigadier Brue, achigumburwa nokusaita chiito kwomukuru wake, nenzira yokuzvidza akarayira kuti boka racho rienderere mberi. Asi Durutte, akakurirwa nomutoro wake, akaramba kubvuma uye mukana mukuru wakarasika, mumwe wezvakaipa zvakawanda zvevaFrench zuva iroro. Sezvazvakaitika, dErlon akasvika kunonoka kuti abatsire Ney muHondo yeQuatre Bras. 