| Rusty Balls | 11 Jun 2018 6:59 p.m. PST |
Setting: The battle line has halted. Your regiment dresses the line while the tall grass rustles against your gaiters as it gently sways to the wind. Your heart is pounding and your pulse throbs. Across the field, the enemy waits silently. Your officer issue the commands to fix bayonets. As you go through the motions your nervous fingers fumble with the bayonet. Sweat rolls down your face, stinging your eyes. You realize it is now perfectly quite. The regiment is called to attention and the command Forward March is echoe by the officers. The first few steps are hesitant and soundless. The band starts to play now. The music drives you on now, fearlessly. Every beat makes you more and more determined. The music conveys the full might and power of your regiment, your army and your country. You march confidently towards the enemy sure of nothing less than victory. What song is the band playing? What one song could propel you towards what you know awaits? |
| Winston Smith | 11 Jun 2018 7:16 p.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 11 Jun 2018 7:22 p.m. PST |
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robert piepenbrink  | 11 Jun 2018 7:24 p.m. PST |
The British Grenadier, and I say that as an American and a staunch Union supporter. |
| darthfozzywig | 11 Jun 2018 7:32 p.m. PST |
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 miniMo | 11 Jun 2018 7:33 p.m. PST |
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| Matsukaze | 11 Jun 2018 9:08 p.m. PST |
British Grenadier, American Yankee Doodle, and French La victoire est à nous |
| Custine | 11 Jun 2018 9:26 p.m. PST |
Surely nothing can match the magnificent sang froid of the Song of the Onion YouTube link |
 Artilleryman | 12 Jun 2018 1:27 a.m. PST |
'The British Grenadiers' going one way and 'La Victoire est a Nous' going the other. |
| Oliver Schmidt | 12 Jun 2018 1:35 a.m. PST |
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| leofwine 3 | 12 Jun 2018 3:44 a.m. PST |
How the heck is that dirge Annie Laurie going to get people to walk into battle? Lilleburlero for me. |
| leofwine 3 | 12 Jun 2018 3:45 a.m. PST |
Highland Laddie is a good shout though Winston. |
| leofwine 3 | 12 Jun 2018 3:48 a.m. PST |
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| Florida Tory | 12 Jun 2018 4:14 a.m. PST |
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 Murphy  | 12 Jun 2018 6:19 a.m. PST |
Oddly enough… One of two songs… Depending on the attack…. "Bandmaster, with gusto! Play: A: Dixie/Bonnie Blue Flag B: The Battle Hymn of The Republic" FORWARD!!!!!! MARCH!" |
| leofwine 3 | 12 Jun 2018 6:25 a.m. PST |
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| Ed Mohrmann | 12 Jun 2018 6:26 a.m. PST |
Murph's 'B' as we step off, then 'A' when the foe
begins to fire… |
| 138SquadronRAF | 12 Jun 2018 7:15 a.m. PST |
La Victoire est a Nous YouTube link Mind you granted the wealth inequality in the US maybe it would be better to learn Ca Ira: YouTube link If we stretch things to 1871 you do get YouTube link As an expat whose lived on four continents the BBC World Service used to use this one YouTube link |
| Garde de Paris | 12 Jun 2018 7:22 a.m. PST |
Since this is on the 18th Century forum, I choose the Hohenfriedberger marsch by "Great Fredie." GdeP |
 ColCampbell | 12 Jun 2018 8:58 a.m. PST |
"Green Hills of Tyrol" and "Scotland the Brave." both played by massed pipes and drums. And be sure to turn the volume up! [GHoT] YouTube link [StB] YouTube link Jim |
| miniMo | 12 Jun 2018 9:52 a.m. PST |
Scotland the Brave is 20th Century!
Up and Waur Them A', WIllie is the 18th Century fight song. Earliest known version of StB is 1911, should not qualify for this poll: link Green Hills of Tyrol squeeks in for the time frame of the poll question, 1854:
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| robert piepenbrink | 12 Jun 2018 10:13 a.m. PST |
The Garryowen? La Marseillaise? Mind you, for rallying the troops, I'm all for The Bonny Blue Flag, the Battle Hymn of the Republic or When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again. But advancing into fire is different. |
| gert1746 | 12 Jun 2018 10:38 a.m. PST |
At Antietam, a soldier in the 3rd Arkansas asked the colonel if he could play his fiddle while the regiment stepped off for an attack. The colonel told him he could play as long as it was a square dance tune. The fiddler played "Granny does your dog bite? Hellfire no!" as the men advanced into battle. YouTube link |
| Old Wolfman | 12 Jun 2018 12:17 p.m. PST |
And that was Ben Turpin as the CSM,Oliver,with Stan and Ollie. |
| marshalGreg | 12 Jun 2018 12:33 p.m. PST |
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| jurgenation | 12 Jun 2018 12:39 p.m. PST |
Bonnie Dundee ….Erika….LeBoudin….. |
| robert piepenbrink | 12 Jun 2018 1:14 p.m. PST |
Because it's almost on topic--sort of--anyone know the regimental march of the Ross-shire Buffs/78th? |
| seneffe | 12 Jun 2018 2:30 p.m. PST |
Another vote for the Hohenfriedberger Marsch. When my little lad was three years old, I played it by accident when looking for a kiddie's track on my ipad. He was entranced by it it and asked what it was. I told him that it was music about 'soldiers on horseback'. That was years ago, but he still occasionally mentions the soldiers on horseback tune. Sadly he's been more interested in minecraft than wargaming but he does seem to like 'what a tanker' so we'll see…. YouTube link Apart from that, it's a really pretty good piece of music- especially if the great man did compose it. |
| Old Peculiar | 12 Jun 2018 3:10 p.m. PST |
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| Frederick | 12 Jun 2018 6:56 p.m. PST |
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| davbenbak | 12 Jun 2018 10:40 p.m. PST |
I can't think of anything more rousing than La Marsaillaise. I mean they even sing it during terrorist attacks. |
| Old Contemptibles | 12 Jun 2018 10:57 p.m. PST |
1700 – 1865? No music covers that many periods. I play music at all my games at home. But I have loads of military music CDs for each period. My AWI music is different from my ACW music. Lets narrow this down. |
| Green Tiger | 13 Jun 2018 1:56 a.m. PST |
Lillibulero, Hohenfriedberger Marsch, The Consular Guard one or the Dessauer… actually the British Grenadiers is pretty good as well an din use from 'who knows when' to the present day… |
| holdit | 13 Jun 2018 2:58 a.m. PST |
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| HappyHiker | 13 Jun 2018 3:56 a.m. PST |
Eye of the Tiger and Dont Fear the Reaper are out right ? |
| Arcane Steve | 13 Jun 2018 4:18 a.m. PST |
Now you've done it HappyHiker…if we are talking modern, it's got to be Tenpole Tudor and Swords of a Thousand men! YouTube link |
| 42flanker | 13 Jun 2018 6:28 a.m. PST |
Cogadh no sith 'War or peace war or peace
Alike to me alike to me
I will be killed in the war
Or hanged in the peace' YouTube link |
| 42flanker | 13 Jun 2018 6:38 a.m. PST |
Then there is this- Pibroch of Donald dubh, a souped-up version of Battle of Inverlochy, the original of which accompanied the 42nd out of Brussels to Quatre Bras on June 16th, 1815. YouTube link |
| Katzbalger | 13 Jun 2018 5:24 p.m. PST |
Since the Marine Hymn isn't in the running…Though I like British Grenadier, La Marsaillaise, and even Dixie (and though I live in the South), it would have to be "Battlecry of Freedom." YouTube link Rob |
| Ryan T | 13 Jun 2018 6:34 p.m. PST |
Although it falls outside of the given dates, the Spanish Legion's El Novio de la Muerte (The Bridegroom of Death) is a seriously inspirational marching song. YouTube link |
| COL Scott ret | 14 Jun 2018 1:57 p.m. PST |
So many good choices to march to the sound of the guns. personally Bagpipes always get me going as do most Prussian marches, and the those from the first French Empire. But here is one more from Austria the Radetsky March (foot stomping Classical). YouTube link There are also several good ACW songs. really all good music to march my plastic armies to, and many that I have stood on parade and marched to myself (although not into gunfire with the band playing) |
| AICUSV | 14 Jun 2018 2:13 p.m. PST |
"Yankee Doodle", it's pretty good for marching to and just thing to fight on. |
| Nine pound round | 14 Jun 2018 2:17 p.m. PST |
Wrong era, but "Sambre eat Meuse" (which was a staple on the Hell Cats' repertoire, for some reason) used to send chills down my spine. I think Offenbach may have written it; anyway, it seemed like the concentrated essence of the furia francese in musical form. An echo of a different time and a different view of the world, when glory was a wholly unironic word. |
| 4th Cuirassier | 15 Jun 2018 2:11 a.m. PST |
43 posts and no shout out for "Donald where's yer troosers"? |
| Osage2017 | 15 Jun 2018 12:33 p.m. PST |
YouTube link Nazi SS "Marschiert in Feindesland" with English Lyrics |
| 42flanker | 15 Jun 2018 1:21 p.m. PST |
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| capncarp | 20 Jun 2018 10:45 a.m. PST |
Perhaps not going into battle, but heading back to camp, tired, hot, sweaty, and dragging--_anything_, even just a drum cadence, to keep those feet moving along. |
| 138SquadronRAF | 20 Jun 2018 11:29 a.m. PST |
Technically "Sambre et Meuse" is just outside, it's just post the Franco-Prussian War. Having done long marches as a reenactor Capncarp, a drum does help at the end of the day: YouTube link |
paints brigs for the British fleet.