"Forgotten? : Black Soldiers in the Battle of Waterloo" Topic
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Tango01 | 25 Nov 2015 12:16 p.m. PST |
"As we are now remembering and commemorating the Centenary of the First World War, Black British colonial troops are only now receiving attention by historians. 2015 is also the bicentenary of another great conflict, the Battle of Waterloo, and on 24th October at 1pm Dr Ray Costello will focus on another group of soldiers of African descent, Black soldiers who fought at the Battle of Waterloo a century earlier than the Great War. Here, Ray writes a blog for us ahead of his talk at the International Slavery Museum: "If Black British colonial troops have been long neglected by historians, the existence of any narrative around Black British soldiers enlisting in the United Kingdom in the Napoleonic Wars is even less known. Black soldiers based in the United Kingdom would seem to have been a component of the British army for a very long time and there is some evidence to suggest that the British Army actively sought black soldiers during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. "Individual Black soldiers are known to have taken part in many of the Napoleonic war campaigns, including the Battle of Toulouse, the Peninsular War, Quatre Bra, and the final battle to defeat the French Emperor Napoleon at Waterloo in June 1815…" See here link Anyone paint balck soldiers in your Napoleonic Armies? Amicalement Armand |
King Monkey | 25 Nov 2015 1:09 p.m. PST |
Not painted any but I seem to remember at least one Black soldier (Not musician) is mentioned in a memoir of someone in the 42nd Highlanders possibly in Anton's Retrospect of a Military Life. |
Chokidar | 25 Nov 2015 1:22 p.m. PST |
I have them in my RN contingent for the SYW! C |
Tango01 | 25 Nov 2015 2:53 p.m. PST |
I painted a whole battalion (350 or so) named the "Pieds Noirs" for the French… but my Armies fought in Africa!. (smile). So, I also have Zulu, Matabels, etc. Plenty of black warriors!. Amicalement Armand |
Brian Smaller | 25 Nov 2015 3:02 p.m. PST |
I have one black Royal Marine figure in my RM Napoleonic battalion. My Zulus do include a few though. |
IronDuke596 | 25 Nov 2015 3:32 p.m. PST |
As part of my War of 1812 collection; Runchey's company and buglers and pioneers for the 104th Foot. I have the figures for a Royal Marine Colonial battalion for my planned Chesapeake campaign battles. |
Tango01 | 26 Nov 2015 10:30 a.m. PST |
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vtsaogames | 27 Nov 2015 8:30 p.m. PST |
My AWI rebels have Black troopers and my ACW Union army has several units of Colored Troops. None in my Napoleonic armies though. Oh yeah, a couple units of Senegalese Tirailleurs… |
PhilinYuma | 28 Nov 2015 5:10 p.m. PST |
I don't want to put a wet blanket on this non-partisan post, nor do I wish to criticize Ray Costello who has been a leading advocate for the black community in Liverpool. I am sure that he intends nothing more than revealing the lives of English black soldiers who fought for their king during the Napoleonic wars, but he flirts with the danger of increasing the separatism that he wishes to vanquish by considering minorities separately from those with whom they served and still serve. In the decades and centuries to come, I want my three boys who served in the US armed forces to be recorded as American servicemen, not as caucasian, latino and black American servicemen. As for those who served and died for England over the centuries, we recite the same verse for all of them: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. Cheers, Phil |
summerfield | 07 Dec 2015 7:05 a.m. PST |
I wrote about the West India regiments in my new book Sir John Moore and the Universal Soldier. Some of these regiments fought in the War of 1812. Stephen |
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