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Vive L'Empereur by Thomason Photography

 

Waterloo earlier by Photosm Stephen Moss

 

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Ligny 2025

 Les Napoléoniennes de Ligny 1815

J'ouvre le bal avec cette vidéo que j'ai réalisée le week-end dernier aux Napoléoniennes de Ligny 1815.

Sharpe figures and a wargame

"BASTARDS!"

PRE-ORDER! This set will release September 4th, the 216th anniversary of Arthur Wellesley becoming Viscount Wellington of Talavera

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Kicking off the officially licensed SHARPE'S RIFLES game and hard plastic range - we have the iconic Lieutenant Richard Sharpe as he would have been in January 1809 during the events of Sharpe's Rifles.

“They thought of him as nothing more than a jumped-up Sergeant, and they were wrong. He was a soldier, and his name was Richard Sharpe." - Sharpe's Rifles, Bernard Cornwell

The 54mm model is a display piece that comes with a scenic base. The 28mm version is true multi-part and has two arm and head options shown here and includes a textured base as well. Chris Hindmarsh has painted the two versions - one to look like Sharpe as per the television show and the other depicting Sharpe as described by Bernard Cornwell in the novel: tall, dark haired, and with a savage scar on his left cheek that made him look like an “execution”.

We will be following the Sharpe box with similar frames for Harper, Riflemen Harris, and other notable characters from Sharpe’s Rifles. Andy Hobday is hard at work on the rules which will be revealed in the first game next spring.

This hard plastic box set includes two complete multi-part figures. There is a 54mm display mono-pose version of Sharpe and a 28mm multi-part version that includes two head and arm options. There are scenic bases for each figure in the box.

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Timpo Waterloo

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Ligny photo by Aurore Van Der Veken

 

Confection Drouot (Paul L Dawson)

 210 years ago, Napoleon's last Marshal, Emmanuel de Grouchy, won a victory over the Prussians north of Wavre. Walking with a limp, occasioned by a wound over a year before, having learned of the disaster of Waterloo, executed a fighting retreat to Paris. Grouchy had never been ordered to Waterloo, nor had he been expected; any suggestion he had been is Napoleon and his immediate circle blaming anyone else for the disaster. Wellington and Blucher made fewer mistakes.

Figthing continued until 3 July. The last battles were under the walls of Paris and at Le Suffell where General Rapp won a victory over the Austrians. As the Empire fell, France descended into anarchy and a white terror: Protestants, Jews and Muslims were massacred. Having waged, what many in England considered to be an illegal war of regime change - George Ponsonby spoke in Parliament saying the British Government had no right to dictate who ran France: we so easily forget that Napoleon had 100,000's of supporters in Britain, and over 80 MPs supportive of reconciliation with him- the Allies refused to step in to prevent what could be considered genocide, because it would interfere with the internal governance of a sovereign state.

The events that lead to the fall of Paris and treason of Marshal Davout, is exposed in my book. If you have not read it, now is the perfect opportunity.

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My Name is Napoleon Bonaparte Frank Harte and Donal Lunny

 Folk album with the theme of the wars. 

There are many Irish songs with references to Napoleon and the wars and battles of that time; This is a double CD that brings many of them together forming a testament in song, to the times, the people and the places.

June Tabor - Plains of Waterloo 1976

 As I rode out one fine summer's morning

Down by the gay banks of a clear pearling stream There I spied a handsome fair maid making sad lamentations Oh, I threw myself in ambush to hear her sad strains Through the woods she marched along, caused the valleys to ring-o The fine feathered songsters around her they flew Saying, "The wars they are all over and peace it is restored again But yet my Willie's not returning from the plains of Waterloo." Well, I stepped up to this fair maid and said, "My fond creature Oh, may I make so bold as to ask your true love's name? For it's I've been in battle where the cannons around rattle And by some strange fortune I might have known the same." "Willie Smith me true love's name is, hero of great fame He's gone and he's left me in sorrow, it's true No one shall me enjoy but me own darling boy But yet he's not returning from the plains of Waterloo." "Well, if Willie Smith's your true Love's name, he's a hero of great fame He and I have been in battle through many's the long campaign Through Italy and Russia, through Germany and Prussia Oh, he was me loyal comrade through France and through Spain." "Until at length by the French we were surrounded Like the heroes of old we did them subdue We did fight for three days until we did defeat him That brave Napoleon Boney on the plains of Waterloo." "Now the eighteenth day of June, it is end of that battle Leaving many's the bold hero to sigh and to mourn Oh, the war drums they did beat and the cannons around did rattle It was by a French soldier your Willie he was slain." "And as I passed by there where he lay a-bleeding Oh, I scarcely had time for to bid him adieu In a faltering voice these words he was repeating Fare the well, me lovely Annie, you are far from Waterloo." Now when this lovely fair maid heard this sad acclamation Oh, but her rosy cheeks turned pale and wan And when I saw this fair maid making sad lamentations Oh, I said, "Me lovely Annie, I am that very one." "And here is the ring that was broken between us In the midst of all danger, love, to remind me of you." And when she saw the token, she fell into me arms crying "You're welcome, dearest Willie, from the plains of Waterloo

Martin Carthy sings "The Eighteenth of June" in "The Battle of Waterloo" (1983)

 Here are a couple of brief clips of Martin Carthy singing "The Eighteenth of June" from the 1983 BBC production of Keith Dewhurst's "Battle of Waterloo". This TV play was transmitted live from BBC Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham on 13 February 1983.

Waterloo (1970) Full movie

 Happy Waterloo Day

Confection Drouot

 210 years ago, Napoleon led his army through the congested streets of Genappe towards, what the maps told him was the hamlet of Mont Saint Jean. As lighting slashed the evening sky, torrential rain. The dawn brought Napoleon his last battle.

How those fateful battles were fought, and what those men wore on the fateful morn, has been a research obsession of mine for twenty years. If you have not been tempted to read my books on the Waterloo Campaign, perhaps now is the perfect time to look at some of my books from my back catalogue.

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