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Battlefield Medicine: Wellington’s medical service at Waterloo

Aug 24, 2016 Military History Monthly Articles, Modern, Napoleonic, Slider 0

There were around 50 hospital staff in Brussels before Waterloo, some of whom had recently been on campaign elsewhere in the Low Countries. Other regimental doctors came over with their battalions,...

Your Military History: Like Father Like Son

Aug 31, 2012 Military History Monthly Articles, Modern, Napoleonic 1

Waterloo – map of troop manoeuvres

Apr 10, 2012 Military History Monthly Battle Maps, Modern, Napoleonic 0

This map explains the movements of the French, British, and Prussian forces from the 15 to the 18 June, 1815. Napoleon seized the initiative in the Hundred Days campaign by marching his army across...

Battle of Waterloo: The Battle for Hougoumont – Map of Hougoumont farm complex

Feb 07, 2011 Military History Monthly Articles, Battle Maps, Modern, Napoleonic 1

The Battle of Waterloo raged all day, but in most sectors, there were lulls in the fighting. Only at Hougoumont was the struggle more or less continuous from 11.30 in the morning until 7.30 at...

Map of the Wellington's Lines of Torres Vedras – from September 1809

Jan 31, 2011 Military History Monthly Articles, Battle Maps, Modern, Napoleonic 1

The lines of the Torres Vedras were lines of forts secretly built by the British from around September 1809-1812 to protect Lisbon during the Peninsular War. The landscape was remodelled wholesale to...

Broadside Cannon

Nov 12, 2010 Military History Monthly Fact-file, Modern, Napoleonic 0

There can have been few sights as frightful as the dull gaze of the 32 pounders of a ship’s broadside as it turned to face you. Weighing in at 3.5 tonnes and capable of firing at a muzzle velocity...

The Diehards – Regiment Profile

Nov 10, 2010 Military History Monthly Modern, Napoleonic, Regiment Profiles 1

The Diehards: The 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot (now part of The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment) Nothing could exceed the conduct and gallantry of Colonel Inglis at the head of his...

The Royal Scots Greys – Regiment Profile

Nov 10, 2010 Military History Monthly Modern, Napoleonic, Regiment Profiles 6

The Royal Scots Greys: The regiment that caught the French Eagle. The image of the Scots Greys charging out of the picture in Lady Elizabeth Butler’s classic painting Scotland Forever! depicts one...