"Napoleonic re-enactments?" Topic
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| chrach7 | 08 Feb 2012 4:54 p.m. PST |
American Civil War re-enactment is a big event here in the states. Are there Napoleonic re-enactments in Europe? |
ScottWashburn  | 08 Feb 2012 5:36 p.m. PST |
Oh yes, and they are very big sometimes. I'd love to be there for the 200th Waterloo reenactment in 2015! |
| Edwulf | 08 Feb 2012 8:07 p.m. PST |
Yep. All over, France, Britain, Germany and Netherlands seem to have large contingents. Russia too. Small but growing groups are in Spain, scandanavia and Italy. |
| Arteis | 08 Feb 2012 8:36 p.m. PST |
Yes. Look here: link Biggest re-enactment I ever attended was ACW, the Gettysburg 135th in 1998 with 23,000 re-enactors! The Napoleonic one in my link above had 4,000, I think. |
| 21eRegt | 08 Feb 2012 9:34 p.m. PST |
Numbers reported at European events always seem to vary a great deal, but I've been to two that I'm confident were over 4000. The other two I've had the pleasure to attend all capped the participation for logistical reasons. |
| Gazzola | 09 Feb 2012 4:37 a.m. PST |
Arteis Great website that gives a really good idea of what it is like when re-enacting the period. The friendship of the all the people from different countries who love or have a great interest in the period. And men, women and children all involved. I would recommend it to anyone. And I think reenacting is the nearest you can get to experiencing what it may have been like to go to war during the Napoleonic period. |
| Cerdic | 09 Feb 2012 6:04 a.m. PST |
Napoleonic re-enacting seems to be bigger in continental Europe than here in Britain. We seem to go more for WW2, ECW, Medieval/Dark Ages and Roman. |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
