Monday, 27 May 2024

A Private of the 1st or Kings Dragoon Guards, 1812

 

From the National Army Museum who say

Aquatint by J C Stadler after Charles Hamilton Smith, 1812.

The 1st King's Dragoon Guards remained in Britain on garrison duties throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the sole exception of the Waterloo campaign of 1815.

From Charles Hamilton Smith's 'Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations 1812', published by Colnaghi and Company, 1812-1815.

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Waterloo on the BBC

My sister sent me these links. She says:


I heard this recently.  Lots of interesting detail. Napoleon's One Hundred Days.

And last night on BBC4 they showed the old War Walks episode on Waterloo which was fascinating. 



Monday, 20 May 2024

Radstock's Waterloo Road

 My home town's connection to Waterloo. From 'Some of our old pictures' by Chris Howell.


Friday, 17 May 2024

Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers

Men of the corps depicted by Charles Hamilton Smith in his Costumes of the Army of the British Empire, according to the last regulations 1812

 Wiki

 From here

Uniform of Heavy and Light Cavalry Cloaked, from Costume of the British EmpireCharles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859)


Military dress of the Peninsular War

 Today's bargain. 50p. Gerry Embleton is a great artist one of the best.



'Cavalry Staff Corps 1813' | Hamilton Smith