Many years ago I went to see the 'Waterloo' film when it first toured the cinemas. Those were the days when you could purchase an informative paper programme for the film. I still have the edition sold for 'Waterloo' and it talked of 5,000 men dying around Hougoumont. If true, that has to be regarded as an horrendous casualty return - from one area of the battlefield alone.
I went on a walking tour of the Waterloo field in August 2019, including Hougoumont. I saw that length of wall but did not examine it closely. I did not know about the loopholes.
a silly question, why didnt napoleon ordered the cannons to smash the walls and the major buildings of the village before the assault? its like modern artillery tactic against a well fortified defense position. and back then, they already have mortars, not sure whether they bought any to waterloo, but these thing i understand had pretty close range but i think they could still bring it to the front as they attack the village and rain down bombs from the sky that will do a lot of damage to the defenders. and i guess this is the downside of having no armor, back in the middle age, heavy plate armor could defect arrows, maybe not super powerful crossbows but they will protect you. but then during waterloo, there is no armor for any infrantry and they get wipe out from musket fires from covered positions. of course, i can imagine that plate armor could probably do not very much against musket thats why they didnt have it.
So no mention of the fact that Hougoumont was actually garrisoned by 1bn of the 2nd Nassau regiment and two companies from the 1st Hanoverian Brigade, instead its just talking about two guards companies who were also present? I'd understand if this was a documentary about the Guards regiments but it isn't. I really don't understand why documentaries are made which aren't accurate, the purpose of a documentary is to educate why waste money on it if its incorrect or missing major bits of information.
Hi Tara. That a difficult thing to do as the only real route is to (in proposal) photograph the individual pages and then send the images generated by email. Here's the problem. How does that square with UK copyright law? I have a suspicion it constitutes a breach of same so it would seem to be legally inadvisable and therefore impossible. I can't offer the original for sale as it's precious, elderly (43 years old) and I could hardly replace it easily (or at all). Sorry about that.
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Many years ago I went to see the 'Waterloo' film when it first toured the cinemas. Those were the days when you could purchase an informative paper programme for the film. I still have the edition sold for 'Waterloo' and it talked of 5,000 men dying around Hougoumont. If true, that has to be regarded as an horrendous casualty return - from one area of the battlefield alone.
I went on a walking tour of the Waterloo field in August 2019, including Hougoumont. I saw that length of wall but did not examine it closely. I did not know about the loopholes.
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a silly question, why didnt napoleon ordered the cannons to smash the walls and the major buildings of the village before the assault? its like modern artillery tactic against a well fortified defense position. and back then, they already have mortars, not sure whether they bought any to waterloo, but these thing i understand had pretty close range but i think they could still bring it to the front as they attack the village and rain down bombs from the sky that will do a lot of damage to the defenders.
and i guess this is the downside of having no armor, back in the middle age, heavy plate armor could defect arrows, maybe not super powerful crossbows but they will protect you. but then during waterloo, there is no armor for any infrantry and they get wipe out from musket fires from covered positions. of course, i can imagine that plate armor could probably do not very much against musket thats why they didnt have it.
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So no mention of the fact that Hougoumont was actually garrisoned by 1bn of the 2nd Nassau regiment and two companies from the 1st Hanoverian Brigade, instead its just talking about two guards companies who were also present? I'd understand if this was a documentary about the Guards regiments but it isn't.
I really don't understand why documentaries are made which aren't accurate, the purpose of a documentary is to educate why waste money on it if its incorrect or missing major bits of information.
I have the same opinion. It seems that it was only won by the Brittains, but that isn's the truth.
Hi Tara. That a difficult thing to do as the only real route is to (in proposal) photograph the individual pages and then send the images generated by email. Here's the problem. How does that square with UK copyright law? I have a suspicion it constitutes a breach of same so it would seem to be legally inadvisable and therefore impossible. I can't offer the original for sale as it's precious, elderly (43 years old) and I could hardly replace it easily (or at all). Sorry about that.
The main presenter is so bored I expected him to fall asleep on the job!!
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Blud this isn't g&b