"The Roman Road in the Waterloo campaign" Topic
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Footslogger | 18 Mar 2015 3:28 a.m. PST |
There was (probably still is) a Roman road tracking SW to NE across the Waterloo campaign area. Can anyone tell me what condition it was in? Could it serve as a proper road or was it only enough of a feature in the landscape for navigation? |
deadhead | 18 Mar 2015 8:04 a.m. PST |
The Roman Rd is easy to find. You can walk it in moments if you just go to Google Earth. Seek out Marbais, Belgium, you will find it marked as Romaine St. With the little yellow man you can "walk" much of it….where tarmaced. Try heading West and you come to a transformer station and there ahead of you is what it must have looked like then. Snag is Google cannot drive down that bit. Satellite view shows an aerial image, in its entirety, of course. So it does exist throughout, even if only a pathway sometimes. Running perpendicular to routes of interest and attack I doubt much used. The one thing Boney's two wings seemed poor at was co-operating. Never the twain would meet! |
Footslogger | 18 Mar 2015 9:32 a.m. PST |
Thank you, that's useful. |
deadhead | 18 Mar 2015 10:15 a.m. PST |
It's actually good fun to wander down the road without leaving your armchair! You can now traipse around the main battlefield, far more widely than on earier Google maps. I am sure you know about the little yellow man and dragging him onto any map……….? |
Footslogger | 18 Mar 2015 1:59 p.m. PST |
I do, but I'd never actually thought of doing it as a way of visiting a European battlefield. Live and learn. |
deadhead | 18 Mar 2015 2:26 p.m. PST |
Malmedy for the Battle of the Bulge Normandy, travel the length of the beaches along the roads "Walk" up to and across the bridge at Arnhem or Pegasus Bridge for D Day. "Walk" from Wavre to Plancenoit and try to follow the Prussian march. It can be done, but then the road gives way to farm tracks. If you have never been to "Waterloo" try Google for, say, Mt St Jean and walk down to the crossroads or Braine L'Alleud and head East…..you can now walk the Ohain Road across the Allied Ridge or from La Belle Alliance up to where that car is parked…roughly where Colborne's lads did their thing against the Guard. Stop anywhere and do a 360 view. Walk past La Haye Sainte. Not Hgmt alas as off limits for cars. Great fun. Borodino…..poor as yet. Salamanca, Greater and Lesser Arapiles, see them as Nosey did |
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