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Just as howiethegreat said: "Napoleon - Total War" is worth a look.
Hopefully Battlefront will create a turn based game of that era on the CMx2 engine. Would be great!
The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815
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Just as howiethegreat said: "Napoleon - Total War" is worth a look.
Hopefully Battlefront will create a turn based game of that era on the CMx2 engine. Would be great!
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Paul Delaroche’s 1814 portrait of Napoleon at Fontainebleau. Named "Napoléon abdiquant à Fontainebleau, who represents Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814, in his chair, looking lost, pale, demoralized by the setbacks of the French campaign, about to abdicate and to be exiled to Elba.
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PRUSSIAN Glory......
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This video is by Lindy Beige. I just love his style. He posits a good argument that one Sir Sidney Smith was the single biggest reason for Napoleon's demise.
While you may disagree you will end up agreeing that his argument has merit. The video is just a little short of an hour, but I found every minute to be entertaining
and informative. I think you will too.
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I don't think Lindy likes Napoleon very much. I don't either.
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While you may disagree you will end up agreeing that his argument has merit. The video is just a little short of an hour, but I found every minute to be entertaining
and informative. I think you will too.
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I don't think Lindy likes Napoleon very much. I don't either.
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Five last British survivors of the Battle of Waterloo and the Napoleonic Wars, June 1880.
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Breastplate of Antoine Fravreau (23) a recruit, height of 1.79 metrestruck (and quite obviously killed) by a cannonball during one of the Waterloo skirmishes. He served as a of Napoleon's heavy cavalrymen during "The Hundred Days." Heavy calvarymen, such as Antoine Favreau, played a significant role in Napoleon's victories. They would be wasted in the defeat which ended the Napoleonic Wars.
From the Daily Mail....
"....The young soldier was a new cavalryman conscript to the French army's 4th company, 2nd Carabinier Regiment who would have had 'no more than seven days training' before his death on the battlefield.
Mr Pollard said the young soldier likely died during a series of cavalry charges, described as 'more of a slog up a muddy hill than a gallop' because of the mud, against the Duke of Wellington's centre and right lines on June 16.
The 1st and 2nd Carabinier regiments were ordered forward from the east edge of Hougoumont at around 6:30pm and were met by a barrage of 'muskets and cannon' in which Favreau was likely killed, he said.
He added the breastplate was a 'prized trophy' that was recovered before Fauveau's body was buried in a mass, unmarked grave.
And in a surprising turn of events for the era a pay book found lodged in the breastplate's padding allowing officials to identify Fauveau.
The book gave his personal details as 'long, freckled face with a large forehead, blue eyes, hooked nose & a small mouth' and revealed he was a dairyman who was due to get married."
"....The young soldier was a new cavalryman conscript to the French army's 4th company, 2nd Carabinier Regiment who would have had 'no more than seven days training' before his death on the battlefield.
Mr Pollard said the young soldier likely died during a series of cavalry charges, described as 'more of a slog up a muddy hill than a gallop' because of the mud, against the Duke of Wellington's centre and right lines on June 16.
The 1st and 2nd Carabinier regiments were ordered forward from the east edge of Hougoumont at around 6:30pm and were met by a barrage of 'muskets and cannon' in which Favreau was likely killed, he said.
He added the breastplate was a 'prized trophy' that was recovered before Fauveau's body was buried in a mass, unmarked grave.
And in a surprising turn of events for the era a pay book found lodged in the breastplate's padding allowing officials to identify Fauveau.
The book gave his personal details as 'long, freckled face with a large forehead, blue eyes, hooked nose & a small mouth' and revealed he was a dairyman who was due to get married."
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I wonder which, if any, were more accurate than the others?
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Reading and reading, I deduce that it was #6, the Baker rifle.
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The Marshal Ney, or Michel Ney (1769-1815) was made a Marshal of France in 1804. He commanded the French army at the Battle of Friedland (1807) and at Borodino and Smolensk (1812), after which Napoleon awarded him the title Prince of the Moskwa. Ney commanded the rearguard of Napoleons epic retreat from Moscow, and the French centre at Waterloo (1815).
He was shot for treason after the capitulation of Paris. It was an example intended for Napoleon's other marshals and generals, many of whom were eventually exonerated by the Bourbon monarchy.
He was shot for treason after the capitulation of Paris. It was an example intended for Napoleon's other marshals and generals, many of whom were eventually exonerated by the Bourbon monarchy.
Marshal Ney leading the French cavalry charge, from Louis Dumoulin's Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo
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"...This vast tricolour is a Napoleonic-era ensign captured from the French warship Le Généreux by Captain Sir Edward Berry (1768/1831) in Feb 1800.
A remarkable survivor from the Trafalgar-era, when sea battles were fought in sailing wooden warships, the ensign measures 16 metres by 8.3 metres and was given as a gift to the city of Norwich by Captain Berry and Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson (1758/1805) immediately after its capture..."
A remarkable survivor from the Trafalgar-era, when sea battles were fought in sailing wooden warships, the ensign measures 16 metres by 8.3 metres and was given as a gift to the city of Norwich by Captain Berry and Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson (1758/1805) immediately after its capture..."
Interesting. Nice find Luis.
Did some looking up....
“….But due to its fragile nature it has not been on display for more than 100 years.
Norfolk Museum Service is now conserving the fragile flag and crowdfunding to raise just £5,000 towards the £40,000 cost of putting it back on display for a new Nelson-themed exhibition, Nelson and Norfolk, opening on July 29 at Norwich Castle.
The exhibition presents some of the most extraordinary and potent objects connected to Nelson, from his boyhood in Norfolk to his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. “
For more information including the battle itself:
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Did some looking up....
“….But due to its fragile nature it has not been on display for more than 100 years.
Norfolk Museum Service is now conserving the fragile flag and crowdfunding to raise just £5,000 towards the £40,000 cost of putting it back on display for a new Nelson-themed exhibition, Nelson and Norfolk, opening on July 29 at Norwich Castle.
The exhibition presents some of the most extraordinary and potent objects connected to Nelson, from his boyhood in Norfolk to his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. “
For more information including the battle itself:
Colossal Napoleonic French Ensign hidden for 100 years is going back on display
Norwich Castle Museum is preserving for display a vast Napoleonic Tricolor captured in 1800 after the Battle of the Nile This vast Tricolour is a Napoleonic-era ensign captured from the French warship Le Généreux by Captain Sir Edward Berry in...
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