"Wellington's campaign map from the Battle of Waterloo" Topic
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Tango01 | 08 May 2015 9:47 p.m. PST |
"The story goes that at Quatre Bras, the day before Waterloo, Wellington turns to his staff officers and says: "I need a map, get me a map of the area". "So this young staff officer goes galloping off to Brussels and you get this sense of him bursting in breathless to the Royal Engineers depot where he meets a Major Oldfield of the Corps who doesn't have a map of Quatre Bras but has several maps of nearby. So they hastily paste them all together and the young staff officer goes galloping back to Wellington. "Unfortunately on his way back he runs into a bit of trouble with some French cavalry, loses his horse and knocks himself out. As he stirs and wakes up he realises his horse has disappeared but he soon finds it chomping on carrots in a field half a mile away with all the plans and maps still on it. He grabs the reins, jumps back in the saddle and heads back to Wellington."…" Full article here link
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E Muilwijk | 13 May 2015 12:02 p.m. PST |
A great map. I was able to purchase the rights to reprint the map as a whole and for various chapters in some closer details (all on A4 size pages!) for my book "Standing firm at Waterloo". |
138SquadronRAF | 13 May 2015 6:51 p.m. PST |
"Traditionally battles are either fought either on the edge of maps or in the crease in between the maps." Too true! |
Robert le Diable | 14 May 2015 9:16 a.m. PST |
"On the side of a hill, at night, during a storm, at a point where four maps meet" |
deadhead | 14 May 2015 12:56 p.m. PST |
and on a Sunday. But who said it? Was it not Slim in Burma? Must check……… |
Tango01 | 15 May 2015 1:06 p.m. PST |
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