Patrick and Victor - re M&C - Timbo in Oz

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Patrick and Victor - re M&C

I did repost eventually. go read.
Oh AAT, did the French Navy ever do anything like putting 24 pounders on the Diamond Rock off Martinique? NO, course not.
Better gunners than the RN? ha ha har!
Their artillery was good, but I don't know if Gribaueval's reforms helped their navy.
And for Victor, every time Nappy's armies came up against Wellington, after Corunna at least, W either won or marched away. How many of his Marshal's failed in Spain? And the French were the better army? pish!
This whole Napoleon worship thing is just not the way all people, esp. those of a british background see it. He was very careless of his men, both in battle and on campaign. A continental secret police, the 'tree of liberty' and a guillotine, in EVERY town. Wow, what a liberator! Grovel, grovel.
Waterloo, and Quatre Bras, may not have been such close run things if W had had more of his Peninsular veterans and generals, majority were sent off to America or elsewhere.
Add the decision of Blucher to form up on the forward slopes at Ligny. A pretty dumb thing to do against the best artillery in the world, no?
Frankly despite 'the reaction' after 1815, eg. 'the Metternich system', I for one am glad that Nappy was finally dished at Waterloo.

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Topic - Patrick and Victor - re M&C - Timbo in Oz 21:01:32 05/21/04 (3)

Re: Patrick and Victor - re M&C - patrickU 13:34:17 05/25/04 (0)

Re: Patrick and Victor - re M&C - Victor Khomenko 07:27:08 05/25/04 (1)

Nappy V. Wellington. - Timbo in Oz 19:25:56 05/25/04 (0)

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