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I went to Waterloo! And took lots of pictures!
The short version, or just a few thoughts re:Waterloo in order of appearance:
- Why is there a lion's butt in the middle of Wellington's line?
- Ridge, what ridge?
- This could be anywhere on European mainland, really. You have to know what you are looking at to know what you are looking at. These could be any fields, any where. All of Europe is blooded earth, has been for millenia.
I will not try to give an account of the battle, others do that much better. I just want to post some pictures of things that struck me as important to understand what was going on.
First this is a map of the battlefield (what are you laughing at?? Of course I have a map!)
the numbers at the arrows are the picturenumbers on photobucket, but you shouldn't need to worry about that...
After some searching I found Wellington's ridge; see the different height of the bank left and right of the road?
A lot of the ridge was used to built the dutch butt.
Then I had a look at the area behind the ridge, where Wellington had his men lay down to shelter from cannon and later form square to recieve cavalry.
left and right flank
And this is Wellington's view south, towards Belle Alliance
Picton's view from the left flank
The road on the ridge, left flank
and the French had to attack here (still left flank)
On to Part Two!
The short version, or just a few thoughts re:Waterloo in order of appearance:
- Why is there a lion's butt in the middle of Wellington's line?
- Ridge, what ridge?
- This could be anywhere on European mainland, really. You have to know what you are looking at to know what you are looking at. These could be any fields, any where. All of Europe is blooded earth, has been for millenia.
I will not try to give an account of the battle, others do that much better. I just want to post some pictures of things that struck me as important to understand what was going on.
First this is a map of the battlefield (what are you laughing at?? Of course I have a map!)
the numbers at the arrows are the picturenumbers on photobucket, but you shouldn't need to worry about that...
After some searching I found Wellington's ridge; see the different height of the bank left and right of the road?
A lot of the ridge was used to built the dutch butt.
Then I had a look at the area behind the ridge, where Wellington had his men lay down to shelter from cannon and later form square to recieve cavalry.
left and right flank
And this is Wellington's view south, towards Belle Alliance
Picton's view from the left flank
The road on the ridge, left flank
and the French had to attack here (still left flank)
On to Part Two!
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aaarg
*runs away screaming. Will come back tomorrow*