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South East, England
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Random question
The 33rd Foot in 1799…
Quick (lazy) google search says they had the nickname of
‘The Havercakes’ or ‘The Havercake Lads’
Any good sources for this other than google?
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I am working in south London for the next three weeks
Doing this drive every day
And back again
It is only 30 miles
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Watching HMS Defiant for the first time in years
Dirk Bogarde was the most handsome of men
Alex Guinness just wonderful and a supporting cast of the very best of British
Bloody good film!
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Finally sorted all call sheets that were my grandfather's. 54 productions coveted it seems.
Attached are Mission Impossible and Charlie.
My personal favourite has to be the Murder by Decree ones, my favourite Holmes film, and my favourite actor, Christopher Plummer
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Chapter 3 explores the events of 17 June and what the retreat might have felt like for those caught up in it.
And why a coat mattered more than you might think
Today on the anniversary of Wellingtons Death
I listened to the Nap wars pod
Turns out that when viewed through the lens of a 21st century progressive, he was a bit of a meanie!
Seems like our national hero also voted for Brexit and read the Daily Mail!
Very disturbing
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On 2 December, my march will end as the battle begins.
On my third day with the French army, I’ll go through Telnice and Sokolnice, retracing the fighting of Friant’s men before ending at the Austerlitz visitor centre.
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His words on the place it happened. It was quite something to create this on the 16th.
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It’s Saturday night
And I am watching Face Off
The best face transplant themed film ever made
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#DidYouKnow Napoleon's Funeral Was a Reunion of an Empire? ⚔️🇫🇷
When Napoleon's remains were returned to France in December 1840, nearly 20 years after his death on St. Helena, the ceremony became far more than a funeral—it was the last great gathering of the Napoleonic generation.
💂 Many of Napoleon's surviving Marshals and generals attended the ceremony at Les Invalides, including Soult, Oudinot, Molitor, and Grouchy. His famous battlefield surgeon, Dr. Larrey, was also in attendance. These aging veterans, once at the head of armies that marched across Europe, stood together one final time to honor their Emperor.
❤️ Marshal Moncey, then 86 years old and in failing health, reportedly told those around him that he wished to live just long enough to receive Napoleon. After the ceremony, he remarked that he was ready to die.
🎖The procession also drew thousands of old soldiers of the Grande Armée. Many wore faded uniforms, medals, and campaign decorations earned decades earlier at Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram, and other legendary battles.
🏛️ As Napoleon's magnificent funeral carriage passed through Paris, veterans saluted, wept, and remembered the days when they had followed the Emperor across Europe.
🇫🇷 For a few hours, the France of 1840 disappeared, and the France of the Empire returned.
The Emperor was finally home. #lesinvalides #napoleon #Emperor #paris #france
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The River Swale at Myton this morning.
In Sept 1319 - possibly on the 12th - the fields on the right were the scene of an awful slaughter, as a force of York's townsmen, including many clergy, marched to face a Scottish army led by hardened veterans of Bannockburn. 1/3
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#OnThisDay 1805 Wellington met Nelson.
In the Colonial Office the two men met, twice.
At first Nelson's ego meant he talked about himself, Wellesley said:
Nelson spoke in "a style so vain & so silly as to surprise & almost disgust me."
On a second meeting Nelson mellowed. Nelson went to a meeting & returned.
Wellesley (later Wellington) said "when he came back he was altogether a different man, both in manner & matter... His ‘charlatan style’ had quite vanished."
Later adding "I don’t know that I ever had a conversation that interested me more."
Wellesley was returning from a decade of campaigning in India.
Nelson was about to depart for what would be the Trafalgar campaign & his last battle.
It is incredible that these men met shortly, by chance in London.
If there was a single historic conversation I could observe, it would be this one, to be a fly on the wall...
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The wait is over! Here’s the first part of von Borcke’s account of the Hundred Days campaign.
Happy reading! 📖
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William Livingstone Robe was 24. Waterloo was his 33rd action.
Mortally wounded, he sent word to his father that he had died like a soldier. He died on 19 June 1815.
His gold medal was sent home to his family.
Before Waterloo, Robe had served at Pombal, Sabugal, Fuentes de Oñoro, El Bodón, Badajoz, Tarifa, Salamanca, Madrid, Burgos, Nivelle, the Nive, the Adour and Bayonne. He had also endured the retreat to Corunna.
A bronze mountain gun brought from the field at Nivelle in 1813 by Robe was presented to his father. The inscription records both their names. Two centuries later, in 2014, it sold at auction for $23.000.
