How all these uniforms look in real life

[Bonaparte]

As a source of inspiration for our torso designers, I've posted a selection of pictures from my visit to the Waterloo battlefield.

I took these pics today, as it is one day before the 18th of June (Waterloo anniversary).

Here you can see all those beautiful uniforms in real life and maybe someone still finds a uniform that's missing in our torso library...

Let me start with some pictures of the (now peaceful) battlefield:

Dutch and British troops marching to the battlefield:

British defending the castle of Hougoumont (on the right flank of the English):

British inside Hougoumont (left) and Dutch just outside the castle (right):

Old guard (left) and wounded British cavalery (right):

A fake Napoleon with his staff (left picture).

The real bonaparte is in the picture on the right (right person) X-D.

The other guy in the picture on the right (left person) is a reincarnation of the duke of Wellington :-D .

[Mister Phes]

A fake Napoleon with his staff (left picture).

Did you assassainate that imposter?

[Mosana]

Great pictures. If I was really going to nitpick, I'd point out that in the eighth picture, the grenadier on the right is in fact a Dutch Grenadier, whose regiment had been disbanded a year before, and so shouldn't really be there. You can see him again in the next picture down. Also, is that the Lion Mound I can see in the first picture?

[Bonaparte]

Great pictures. If I was really going to nitpick, I'd point out that in the eighth picture, the grenadier on the right is in fact a Dutch Grenadier, whose regiment had been disbanded a year before, and so shouldn't really be there.

Well, it seems that historical accuracy was not really the prime concern of the organizers.

Napoleon and his staff were standing at about 200 meters from the castle of Hougoumont on the English side :-D .

You can see him again in the next picture down. Also, is that the Lion Mound I can see in the first picture?

Jep, that's indeed the Lion Mound.

I added that picture because that's what most people associate Waterloo with these days.

Personally I don't like that monument. It changes the original terrain of the battlefield.

Here's a closer picture:

Did you assassainate that imposter?

Yes sir! I executed him and his entire fake staff.

The reincarnated Wellington still lives because is had to drive home with him :-D.

Edited June 17, 2007 by bonaparte

[Mosana]

I'm not a huge fan of why it's there either, namely to commemorate the spot where the Prince of Orange was wounded.

[Fordo]

Nice pictures, to bad I'd be a pretty expensive trip for me to travel over to Belgium. That statue does ruin the scenery darn King William I for creating that.

Yes sir! I executed him and his entire fake staff.

That will teach all those other imposters not to mess with the real Napoleon Bonaparte. :-D

[Norrington]

That will teach all those other imposters not to mess with the real Napoleon Bonaparte. :-D

No, you can't mess with the real Napoleon Bonaparte. After all, he has been dead for allmost 200 years (it will be 200 years in 2014 I think), and is encased in a marble tomb in Les Invalides.

But, great pictures all the same.

[Mosana]

If it were 2014, that would mean he died the year before Waterloo. I think the date you're looking for is 2021. :)

Also, today, june 18, 192 years ago, the Battle of Waterloo took place.

[Mister Phes]

My goodness! Its a grassy pyramid!

[Bonaparte]

My goodness! Its a grassy pyramid!

This horrible monument was "donated" by the Dutch.

Mr. Tiber, you can have it back now X-D

Edited June 18, 2007 by bonaparte

[Mister Phes]

For some reason I thought Mr Tiber was from Demark. This now I reminds me to earlier posts and messages I've written which are now horribly inaccurate.

[El Bucanero]

Interesting to see all those uniforms in use...

Too bad there are telephone poles (or whatever they are) on the battlefield...

This horrible monument was "donated" by the Dutch.

Mr. Tiber, you can have it back now X-D

I wonder how we got the strange idea to make a... grassy pyramid.. If were Egyptians, I could understand but I would have expected a windmill...

For some reason I thought Mr Tiber was from Demark. This now I reminds me to earlier posts and messages I've written which are now horribly inaccurate.

Really? Now you got me curious...

Mr Tiber

Edited July 4, 2007 by Mr Tiber

[Scouty]

I too thought you were from somewhere else besides the Netherlands X-D , sorry mate!

Anyway, those picys look great. Thanks from the nearly month ago Bonaparte!

[Tanotrooper]

Interesting to see all those uniforms in use...

Too bad there are telephone poles (or whatever they are) on the battlefield...

[Mr Tiber

maybe for fast communication? :-D

I'll go to Waterloo when I have money to buy some things there.

I'm already going to Bastogne, saving for a German uniform *sweet*

I hate that lion...

TT

[Hussar]

Hehe, I was there a few years ago. Had some wonderful beer at a local tavern where they had Napoleon's chair on exhibit. The legs were quite short. :-D

[Tanotrooper]

Hehe, I was there a few years ago. Had some wonderful beer at a local tavern where they had Napoleon's chair on exhibit. The legs were quite short. :-D

he lay on his chairs instead of sitting on them

with his feet on a drum or something.

TT

[Mosana]

Napoleon is often depicted as sitting in such a manner.

Edited July 7, 2007 by Mosana

[Lt. Col. Thok]

I didn't know they had telephones in the 1800's!! Anyways, great pics. I guess they didn't have a Duke of Wellington actor, or did they? could you please clarify that.

[Wout]

Never thought the grassy piramide was made by the Dutch.

@ Bonaparte: Maybe we can place it in the dutch Austerlitz (near Zeist). The old pyramide made by french troops in 1804 was not good restaurated in 2004 and is still dangerous to climb.

Historical knowledge on

[Bonaparte]

I didn't know they had telephones in the 1800's!! Anyways, great pics. I guess they didn't have a Duke of Wellington actor, or did they? could you please clarify that.

Nope, there was no Wellington actor.

Maybe we can place it in the dutch Austerlitz (near Zeist).

I'd prefer they used the sand of this ugly Pyramid to restore the hill to it's original shape and hight.

I don't like how it changes part of the original battlefield...