Two hundred years ago today...
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:33 pm
The battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras were fought between the French Army of the North, the Anglo-Dutch Army of Flanders and the Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine.
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Re: Two hundred years ago today...
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 9:14 pm
Who won?
Re: Two hundred years ago today...
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 9:40 pm
The bad guys.
Re: Two hundred years ago today...
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:24 pm
We have a different definition of "bad" if von Blucher took the field with 10,000 more men and a decided advantage in artillery... and lost his manpower advantage to desertion alone.Captain Seafort wrote:The bad guys.
Re: Two hundred years ago today...
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2015 12:40 am
Doh!Captain Seafort wrote:The bad guys.
Re: Two hundred years ago today...
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 7:16 pm
The good guys won the rematch.
With the result that this is the first thing any Frenchman sees when he arrives on the Eurostar:
With the result that this is the first thing any Frenchman sees when he arrives on the Eurostar:
Re: Two hundred years ago today...
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 11:38 pm
I remember reading the unabridged Les Miserables and hitting the twelve or fifteen page digression on Waterloo. Then there was the even LONGER digression on the Parisian sewer system...