| Tango01 | 02 Jul 2012 3:13 p.m. PST |
Even with over so many years, they looks great as we imagine were Napoleon soldiers. link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Gazzola | 02 Jul 2012 3:24 p.m. PST |
Tango01
Excellent post! And imagine the tales those characters would have had to tell.
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Uesugi Kenshin  | 02 Jul 2012 3:52 p.m. PST |
Great to see the Hussars in living form! I still dont see how the lancers kept their helmets on!? |
| 14Bore | 02 Jul 2012 4:44 p.m. PST |
Look back possibly two years ago, these came up after I mentioned them from a book I have. Still amazing to see Nap's troops come alive. |
| Ashenduke | 02 Jul 2012 5:38 p.m. PST |
Great pictures. Some of those guys look like they could still do a hard days marching straight into battle. |
| Tango01 | 02 Jul 2012 10:18 p.m. PST |
And kill you without hesitation!. Glad you had enjoy the link boys!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Cerdic | 02 Jul 2012 11:34 p.m. PST |
Interesting how 'low-slung' they wear the pelisse. |
| brunet | 03 Jul 2012 12:07 a.m. PST |
Would those bellies fit in the original uniforms?? |
| Bottom Dollar | 03 Jul 2012 2:29 a.m. PST |
Very cool. Those guys saw a few things in their lifetime. |
| Old Slow Trot | 03 Jul 2012 6:44 a.m. PST |
Sgt. Taria of the Old Guard looked quite cool. |
| 12345678 | 03 Jul 2012 2:32 p.m. PST |
I believe that some of these uniforms were replicas and certainly some look more like Second Empire styles than First Empire. However, regardless of that, they are quite amazing and, as Ashenduke and Tango said, you can almost believe that at least a couple of these chaps could still do the business. I remember a few years ago hearing a radio programme which included a very early recording (possibly made on a phonautograph machine) of a rather old French veteran recalling Napoleon's funeral in Paris. To hear someone actually giving a first hand account of it was somewhat awe-inspiring! In some ways it is so long ago but when you see photographs like these or hear a recording of someone who was there, it makes it all seem so much more real. |
| Seroga | 03 Jul 2012 3:31 p.m. PST |
Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Savin, sous-officier au 24e chasseurs à cheval
He was taken by Cossacks at the Berezina. Along with quite a few others, he declined repatriation and thereby was granted Russian citizenship. As Николай Андреевич Савен, he lived a very long life under the warm sun of southern Russia, in (then) beautiful Saratov, teaching French. The photo was taken in ~1890. May he, and all the other veterans of all the wars, rest in peace. |
paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
