"Die Schlacht Von Ligny 16th Juni 1815" Topic

Die Schlacht von Ligny 16th Juni 1815

Timeline 4.20PM

General overview of the action.

St. Amand in the foreground. St. Amand La Haie to the left. Ligny in the centre with Mount Potriaux just visible at the far left corner and Tongrinne church at the right hand far corner.

6th Brigade Generalmajor Karl August von Kraft, takes up position at Brye in order to support the defence of Ligny.

The reserve artillery of 1st Korps positioned behind St, Amand begin to take casualties from the French artillery of the Guard.

Fighting continues for the possession of the church in St. Amand.

Westphalian Landwher reinforcements move to support St. Amand

Feldmarschall Gebhard Lebrecht, Furst Blucher von Wahlstadt leads his ‘kinder' to support St. Amand.

French troops from 12th Infantry Division, Lieutenant-General Baron Marc-Nicholas Pecheux, fight their way towards Ligny church

1st Division De La Jeune Garde, Lieutenant-general Pierre, Comte Barrois advances towards Ligny following the capture of the Chateau De Looz.

5th Prussian Brigade, Generalmajor Ernst Ludwig von Tippleskirch, supported by 2ndCavalry Brigade, Oberstlieutenant von Sohr, advances from Wagnelee in order to outflank the French left.

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Beautiful! That's a lot of work.

Great stuff! Thanks!

Wow!

That gave me goose bumps.

Impressive and some lovely close combat action scenes. However, I'm not sure about the scarecrow in image 5. LOL

Glorious!

I cannot work out what it is that makes the photography so realistic. Maybe natural daylight and strong shadows, superb scenery, low angles……..smoke effect…the ground work……..something!

Phenomenal…….

Hello and thank you all for your very kind comments.

With respect to the photography, it is all done indoors in my garage.

My old Fuji camera has recently died and most of these pictures were done with my new Panasonic. It has a remote Wi Fi feature which, coupled with the small nature of the camera allows you to 'get in close' choose the shot from your I pad and click away.

It is brilliant for seeing who has ' died' without permission, and who has a church sticking out of their head! I can not recommend the technology highly enough.

Thank you again.

Chris

Very nice!

That photo tip is so simple….and brilliant. I have always taken out the memory card and plugged it into the PC…….it never even occurred to me to…oh forget it…too embarrassing to admit this.

Let's just say thanks……….it works!