Richard Holmes Redcoat

 Picked this up for 50p. Looks good. Have you read it?

 Out in January 

NAPOLEON'S SPRING CAMPAIGN 1813, LÜTZEN AND BAUTZEN

click on the link for more details

https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/napoleons-spring-campaign-1813-lutzen-and-bautzen-a-wargamers-guide.php?sid=a9960138d48128719d007b90b9abc133

Airfix Battle of Waterloo Diorama Set - HO/OO Scale 1/72 Fully Painted

 

Here for a pleasant look at this set

Coldstream Guard and Lifeguard, 54mm Airfix by Nick Branche

 These are great.

The Waterloo Campaign in 100 locations

 Haven't seen this yet but could be interesting.

Blurb says 

In the 200 years since the famous battle in the muddy, bloody fields of Waterloo, almost every aspect of the fighting has been examined and analysed, apart from one – that of finding and illustrating locations relating to the campaign. From Napoleon’s landing on the Golfe Juan on France’s Côte d’Azur, along the Route Napoleon and through Grenoble, the Emperor’s journey back to Paris, and back to power, is revealed here. In this beautifully produced book, we see where Napoleon distributed the Imperial Eagles to the regiments of his army, and where his forces assembled before marching to war, and where the Due of Wellington’s Anglo-Allied army gathered in Brussels. The camera follows the initial encounters on the banks of the River Sambre and the manoeuvring of the French and Coalition forces leading to the first great battles of the campaign at Quatre Bras and Ligny. The key sites occupied by the opposing armies at these battles are investigated as are the routes of the withdrawal to Mont St Jean by Wellington’s army and to Wavre by Blücher’s Prussians. The Waterloo battlefield and its associated buildings are examined in pictorial detail, as are the locations which marked the pivotal moments of the battle. The sites of the corresponding battle at Wavre are also shown, as well as the pursuit of the two wings of beaten French Army, including the sieges of the fortresses by the British army, before Paris was finally reached. The uprising in the Vendée and the last clashes of the campaign before Napoleon’s abdication are also featured. The book closes with Napoleon’s journey from Paris to St Helena via l'Île d’Aix and Plymouth. Headquarters buildings, observation posts, monuments and memorials, bridges and battlefields, and the principal locations of the campaign are portrayed in unique photographs – and behind every plague and place is a tale of political posturing, military manoeuvring, sacrifice and savagery. Together these images tell the story of Napoleon’s greatest gamble, and we know that a picture is worth a thousand words!

Camp follower

 Been looking for pics of British camp followers.

La Victoire est a nous

 

Here for a great Napoleonic march. On Spotify. 

I found this on YouTube

The song La Victoire est à nous, adapted by David Buhl from an aria from an opera by composer André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), La Caravane du Caire, is one of the “hits” of the military bands of the First Empire, executed on many battlefields, especially when entering Moscow on September 14, 1812. It was composed during the French campaign in Egypt and Syria. Born in Liège on February 11, 1741, André Grétry is one of the precursors of French opéra-comique. His performances animated Paris, even during the French Revolution. Much admired by Napoleon, he was among the first to receive the Legion of Honor.

Soldier and camp-follower

 

Le fantassin de 1812 et 1815 Michel Petard

 

Line Infantry, Light Infantry & a Hussar of the King's German Legion (KGL), post 1812.

(By Charles Smith)

Learning the drill

 

Soldiers Drilling, 1807 (c)

Coloured aquatint with soft ground etching by and after J A Atkinson, published by William Miller, 49 Albemarle Street, London and James Walker, 8 Conway Street, Fitzroy Square, London, 1 Jan 1807.

Shows infantry drilling in fatigue dress, with an officer and non commissioned officers in summer dress.

Rifleman 1814

 William Alexander

Camp followers

 

Leopold Beyer French army studies 1813-15

 More here

Pleasant image

 

Recruiting sergeant 31st Regiment 1810

Nassau troops

 This is one of my favourite Waterloo uniforms. 

From here at Napoleon online

1 - Hauptmann, 1. Regiment
2 - Tambour, 1. Regiment
3 - Sergeant-Major, 1. Regiment
4 - Jäger der Zentrumskompanie, 1. Regiment
5 - Füsilier des 3. Bataillons, 1. Regiment
6 - Grenadier und Voltigeurtschako, 1. Regiment
7 - Hornist der Voltigeure, 1. Regiment
8 - Oberleutnant, 2. Regiment
9 - Hauptmann im Mantel, 2. Regiment
10 - Tambour, 2. Regiment
11 - Jäger, 2. Regiment
12 - Sappeur, 2. Regiment
13 - Grenadier, 2. Regiment
14 - Flanqueur, 2. Regiment
15 - Tschakoblech des 1. Regiments (nach Original im Landesmuseum Wiesbaden) und des 2. Regiments (nach Original im Armeemuseum Brüssel)
16 - Grenadier mit den englischen "Wings" 1815/1816
17 - Flanqueur mit den englischen "Wings" 1815/1816
18 - Unteroffiziersdienstgrade
19 - Offiziersdienstgrade

My teenage visit to Waterloo

 I am on the left. Not wanting my photo taken. 

Uniforms of Waterloo Haythornthwaite

 This book from 1974 I had as a teen. My parents bought it for me. I will post some of my favourite images

Picked up this for 50p

 Looks good.

ESR explains the process of making miniatures

 Here

95th in a Belgic shako

 

Uniforms of the Retreat from Moscow, 1812

 My library loan service has this book. Just reserved it. Like the artist's work

Title: Uniforms of the Retreat from Moscow, 1812: ...

Publisher: Poole: Blandford Press

Publication Date: 1976

Illustrator: Michael Chappell