In the late 1800s this opened to the public, becoming a proper museum in 1955 and the Wellington Museum that we know today in 1975.
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Built in 1705, by 1815 this was the widow Bodenghien’s inn and stables. We start at Wellington’s overnight headquarters in Waterloo.
SCOURGE OF WAR WATERLOO ISSUING ATTACK ORDERS SERIES
Images of these are numerous, and the monuments are little changed, so this fourth article in our postcard series focuses on significant buildings. Numerous old postcards record the many monuments that line this road, from the Belgian, Hanoverian and Gordon on Wellington’s ridge, to the Hugo and Wounded Eagle on the French ridge. This article was kindly published in the Waterloo Journal Vol.39 No.3 Autumn 2017.Ĭutting through the heart of the Waterloo battlefield is the Charleroi-Brussels road. If you like what you see, please join the Campaigns & Culture News Club which will feature updates on our tours, the latest Mercer research and our talks. Please roam around the Campaigns & Culture site to learn more, and of course this GTroopRHA site remains here to inform you about the restoration, Mercer’s book of paintings, and our original research.
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We enjoy the best landscapes, art and architecture, great food and hospitality, so our tours are genuinely entertaining as great holidays for couples aswell as history buffs. We challenge accepted history with fresh insights, seen through the eyes of those who were there. Join us for our journeys to the Battlefields of Waterloo, or follow Mercer’s Campaign through Bruges, Ghent and beautiful countryside taking in the best Chateaux and chocolate or further afield with Wellington in The Peninsula with vineyards and port or with Nelson & Wellington seizing the Danish fleet in Copenhagen. It is an enormous pleasure to announce the launch of Campaigns & Culture, a new and high quality battlefield & cultural tour business with my friend and doyen of Napoleonic authors, Gareth Glover. We hope you like the fresh look and feel of this site, but we have even more exciting news to share: Mercer’s “Journal of the Waterloo Campaign” is often regarded as the finest campaign account ever written. Bowes' and Hill's brigades are released sooner into the battle.The famous 1815 exploits of ‘G Troop’ RHA and their junior captain Alexander Cavalié Mercer are rightly celebrated. I modified existing French AI script for a more direct (extreme) attack at a Corps level.
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Solignac's brigade has new orders directing it to attack Vimeiro instead of Ventosa. The three French columns have skirmishers deployed to start. Increased the objective points for capturing Vimeiro to account for one less objective. Removed the Ventosa farm objective (British left flank). This scenario is a what-if variant of the in-game scenario.It is meant to be played solo as the Allied player against French AI. Junot's failed movement has always made me wonder what might have happened if he hadn't placed that order. After consolidating his army east of Vimeiro, Junot splits his force sending a brigade of regulars in a wide swinging movement around Wellington's left flank.
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It also includes an inexplicable tactical blunder by the the French commander Junot. It includes a spirited fight inside the dusty village of Vimeiro that carries up to the church steps there. Wellington reconnoiters the ground personally in front of the advancing French army, placing his brigades to make best use of the terrain. Vimeiro is my favorite Peninsular War battle.