A Virtual Tour of Hougoumont with Dr Stuart Eve - Lockdown Lectures
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- In a very special Lockdown Lecture, Dr Stuart Eve takes us on a tour of a virtual Hougoumont farm, courtesy of Ronan of Pan Immersion. Pan Immersion use cutting edge virtual reality technology to bring history to life; please see their website for more of their work: panimmersion.com.
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I have been saying for decades that ruins/tourist sites would benefit from virtual tours but, as ever, money always intervenes. Either the fear of lowering footfall or the simple cost of creating and maintaining a system is usually cited as a reason not to even try.
This presentation shows the real value of 3D representations of historical sites. Obviously there is some guesswork involved but imagine Housesteads/Hadrian's Wall or Sarum recreated like this. Whole towns could be recreated at different times to show their layout and development through history. As the technology improves, only the imagination really stands in the way.
Now all we need is the rest of the battlefield ... and the troops moving into battle.
If you can recreate virtual terrain maybe there will be a virtual reconstruction of the day's fighting one day.
Great presentation. Really puts in context why the French had difficulty in attacking the defences. I hadn't appreciated before how difficult the vegetation and internal layout of the buildings would have made attacking the area.
This! Finally I have found what I am convinced is the future of history online, maybe I have just not looked in the right places. With walk-throughs of historical buildings, towns, battles etc this is fantastic. To be able to see the excavations and the reconstructions - it would make a great video "game" with written or spoken comments available . I have wondered for ages why this was not done for example for Pompeii- I realise it would be expensive but so fascinating! Great stuff.
Very interesting presentation! Many thanks Stuart. Great to see what Hougoumont looked like at the start of the battle.
This is great! It is definitely very hard to imagine how it looked like in 1815. It is very helpful to now actually see the descriptions visualised. At least the crisis and lockdowns have been good for something. Thank you so much for this!
Fascinating lecture. The virtual aspect is fantastic in getting a good sense of the buildings!
Absolutely fantastic!
Now you can give a walk there..awesome
Nicely done - pictures of the time seem to indicate a significant hedge lining the wood in front of the garden wall.
thank you for a very interesting Lockdown Lecture, wonderful use of technology in the analysis of archeology & history
Excellent presentation. Interesting seeing the woods and wheatfield in "real" life.
Excellent presentation. I was on the 2015 dig as a Veteran post grad I was surprised at the size of the stables/farm buildings directly East of the North Gate. I have a few wargame models of Hougoumont and those particular buildings are always shown smaller in size? However looking at the archaeology they prove to be further out from the North/East corner of the complex than previously thought? It is difficult today when visiting the site to visualise how the buildings, wood, crops and vegetation actually appeared. The virtual observation throws up all sorts of questions, the French infantry troops advancing onto the south East side of the walled garden would have been well hidden. Also the large French cavalry mass to the east of Hougoumont making their way to the ridge would have gone through those large crops. The horses would have disappeared until everything was trampled down.
After studying Hougoumont the past couple days, finding this virtual depiction is great.
that was fascinating -thank you so much. Viewpoint from the wood was totally unexpected and very informative.
I really enjoyed this. Thank you so much.
Very interesting lecture, to see Hougoumont as it was and the surroundings was fantastic. Almost expected to see the French coming through the woods.
Totally absorbing. Thank you for a great commentary mixing excellent information with a very human angle to what it must have been like to fight there. Now I understand the bigger picture thanks to the excellent virtual reality tour.
Wonderful thanks. Having the excavation trenches visible and the following by inserting the reconstructions was super.
Great lecture.
I really wish you had turned more often. I want to see more.
Also well done Ronan.
Excellent! Thank you very much!
Thanks so much for your talks; we visited in 2016, interesting enough, but I can't wait to go back armed with your reconfiguration of the buildings.
Brilliant,great insight into Hougoumont.More please...
Well, thank you, this was not a bad idea at all.
I've been there in 2013, and yes, it makes more sense now.
Excellent video
That's really something. It answers many questions, such as "why didn't the French bring up their artillery sooner" and "why was this attack done in such a piece-meal fashion". Obviously, the woodland covered the chateau and the French must have more or less blindly stumbled upon it.
I'm loving the "Uncovered" series. Does anyone have any idea of the casualties suffered by the Allies and French respectively at Hougoumont? Even an estimate?
Great stuff!
Crops like wheat would certainly have been taller than today because they didn't have modern dwarf varieties in those days, but that field at the end looks excessively tall for any plausible cereal.
Great tour. This fascinates. The very best account I have ever read of the battle of Waterloo is in aThe Infamous Army, by georgette Heyer.
This clarifies the battle around Hougomont for me. Georgette Heyer's book introduced me to Waterloo and Hougoumont. Another book, The Spanish Bride is based on the autobiography of Harry Smith, and tells of the Peninsular War and a little bit about the burning of Washington D.C. as part of the War of 1812. Then it turns to Waterloo. I recommend both of these books highly.
so very interesting
Thank you Stuart. Just a couple of observations/questions. According to your video there was nothing over the top of the wooden lintel but various illustrations made shortly after the battle show a few courses of brickwork over the top of the lintel.
Most modern models and paintings show a lean-to type building between the chapel and chateau proper. Your video also shows this lean-to but according to a well known painting of the damaged chateau, it doesn’t show this. It’s shown as just a squarish building with the chapel attached.
Ian, the Hougoumont model is a work in progress. You are correct about the bricks over the lintel. We are aiming to release a 3D diorama of the closing of the gates in a couple of weeksand the lintel is one of the changes to the structure. Concerning the chateau, I think you are referring to one of series of paintings by James Rouse in Mudford's book. Personally I would consider them to be quite reliable and detailed but often a bit misleading with respect to dimensions. I don't think there was enough of the upper part of the building visible in the Mudford painting to conclude one way or another.
Ronan Burgess Thank you for your reply. If there is actually no evidence for the lean-to on the side of the chateau why add it? Isn’t it more likely that the chateau didn’t have this annex between the chateau and chapel and looking closely at the after the battle paintings of the chateau there isn’t any evidence for it. I think it all stems from a old drawing of the Hougoumont complex that shows Hougoumont before the battle. Some of it is quite fanciful and not at all accurate.
@@ianknight2053 Ian, I would not say there is no evidence for the extension, just that it is not clear from the Mudford painting. As you know, there are a couple of sketches showing the chateau building in the form I have given it, as well as the model in the 1815 Memorial. That is what I have gone with for the time being. But it is subject to change and I am continuing researching into it. Some evidence in support of the "lean-to" in documents of the estate of the last private owner, Oultremont, a document from 1662 speaking about an extension to the original building and the chapel being added at the same time. Also a "cadastral" map showing the footprint which was not a simple rectangle. However it is still inconclusive and I will certainly update the model as evidence emerges. I would really some hard archaeological evidence from the foundations :-) Happy to discuss further by email
Ronan Burgess Thank you Ronan. I find everything about Waterloo and especially Hougoumont fascinating. I have visited the battlefield a few times and will go again soon.
The virtual model is fantastic by the way. Ian
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Where sharp lost the last of his men. Except for Harper who had left the army. So sad. 🤣
Rest in Peace Hagman and Harris
Looking Good Stuart .... that's one way of getting in your 10,000 steps a day.... will check out Pan Immersion ... maybe they can help with Siege of Haddington project
Superbe travail !
brilliant!
Hi i'm double dipping with the comments but i was wondering. There has been quite a talks about Hougoumont, but i was thinking about other sites what about La haye sainte for example has there been much archaeology coming from there?
Great idea. Your Avatar should have been in period costume.
All the Mount and Blade: Napoleonic war maps need to be updated!
So, am I correct in thinking that the French attacked from the South first and then swung around to attack at the North gate?...A brief aerial view would be helpful here in understanding the entire layout...Well done...
well done, thx
I've just discovered your lockdown lectures. I wonder about a couple of things in this virtual rendering. You've rendered the woods as a wild tangle of vegetation, but the Project Hougoumont website has an article called "Of Hedges, Myths and Memories" in which a map shows that wood as a formal arboretum with multiple pathways, making it far less of a visual obstacle. In addition you have rendered the wheat plants at about 8' tall, which seems far too tall. Ancient wheat is reported to grow up to 6' tall, but medieval manuscripts show it only shoulder height (modern wheat has shrunk to about 18" or half a meter). Again, not a visual obstacle.
wheres the shamblers
But am not convinced about the height of the cereal crops - I've grown older strains of rye (Secale cereale) myself and they were tall but that means chest height. See here also older wheat strain v tall compared to modern but also chest height. ruclips.net/video/50-CJGkgjF8/видео.html
Miraculous? Please.