| Tango01 | 23 Feb 2019 1:04 p.m. PST |
"The battle is in the balance. After six hours fighting it is time to commit the elite – the French Imperial Guard! Test yourself on this, the final pahse of one of the greatest battles in history" link Amicalement
Armand |
 deadhead  | 23 Feb 2019 1:45 p.m. PST |
7/10. This one is tricky! Brilliant. Will try again tomorrow when stone cold sober |
| Lambert | 23 Feb 2019 2:20 p.m. PST |
8/10 – but I admit a couple were lucky guesses. |
| Gunfreak | 23 Feb 2019 2:28 p.m. PST |
I've been told there was no middle guard at waterloo. |
| Twilight Samurai | 23 Feb 2019 9:10 p.m. PST |
Guessed them all. 7/10 I suppose that thing about monkeys and typewriters is true! |
| langobard | 24 Feb 2019 2:18 a.m. PST |
7/10, good fun but clearly too long since I read my Waterloo books :) |
| 4th Cuirassier | 24 Feb 2019 4:13 a.m. PST |
I lost interest when the non-existent Middle Guard was mentioned. |
| 14Bore | 24 Feb 2019 5:40 a.m. PST |
6 ot of 10, failed miserably |
| 42flanker | 24 Feb 2019 7:55 a.m. PST |
8/10 Guesses about the Garde OB, some more confident than others, but I should have got No.7 |
| Eagle76 | 24 Feb 2019 9:02 a.m. PST |
How can someone score less than 0? |
| JMcCarroll | 24 Feb 2019 12:45 p.m. PST |
5 out 10. Still I had most questions down to two answers. |
| deadhead | 24 Feb 2019 1:07 p.m. PST |
This is the ultimate in "trivia", but why not. At least here we stand some chance. Most North Yorks pub quizzes leave me baffled. All about "celebrities" and their affairs etc…. |
| Musketballs | 24 Feb 2019 1:43 p.m. PST |
Just a point: The Middle Guard doesn't seem to have been officially activated…so in the movement order for the campaign, we find the guard marching – Young Guard – All the Chasseurs – All the Grenadiers. But…Napoleon's post-Waterloo bulletin talks about the Middle Guard attacking. It's possible he reactivated it after the event as a handy scapegoat, I suppose. However, Ney, in his answer to the bulletin, also distinguishes between the Middle Guard he led, and the Old Guard in reserve behind them. Given that part of his motivation for writing the latter was to correct what he saw as unfounded calumnies against the troops, it hardly seems likely that he summarily demoted the Guardsmen he led to Middle Guard. Seems like a Middle Guard was recognised on the ground, even though it didn't exist on paper. |
| Tango01 | 24 Feb 2019 3:39 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friends! (smile)
Thanks Musketballs!
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Armand |
| 21eRegt | 24 Feb 2019 3:51 p.m. PST |
8/10. Should have had 9 but I read one question too casually. |
| 4th Cuirassier | 25 Feb 2019 3:25 a.m. PST |
The Middle Guard were different formations at different times. Originally the 2nd Chasseurs and 2nd Grenadiers were Middle Guard but these were disbanded, then reformed and in 1813 designated Old Guard. In addition to these there were regiments of Fusilier-Chasseurs and Fusilier-Grenadiers who were upgraded to Middle Guard status in 1811. In 1815 the latter were not reactivated but the 2nd regiments of the grenadiers and chasseurs were. They had been Old Guard since 1813. The formations that attacked Wellington's line were Old Guard. Davout was Minister of War and he never mentioned any Middle Guard in 1815. I will take Davout's view over Ney's and, yes, even over Napoleon's. Part of the confusion is historical and part is perhaps administrative. Officers and NCOs in the former Middle Guard units were rated individually as Old Guard. Part is probably embarrassment masquerading as confusion. The Old Guard were beaten in 1815 by Prussian reserve infantry, by Chassé's Dutch infantry and by the Foot Guards, whose numbers at Waterloo had been swelled by the transfer into their ranks of large numbers of Berkshire militia. On balance it's not hard to see why some might have preferred these troops to have defeated the Middle rather than the Old Guard. |
| Gunfreak | 25 Feb 2019 4:08 a.m. PST |
I will take Davout's view over Ney's and, yes, even over Napoleon's. That's generally a good rule in all things. |
| Marc at work | 25 Feb 2019 6:08 a.m. PST |
4th – all good points except I wasn't sure why you said the reserve infantry had beaten the OG. My reading is that the OG held onto Plancenoit until the very end. Marc |
| 4th Cuirassier | 25 Feb 2019 6:48 a.m. PST |
@ Marc ISTR that the 18th Regiment threw back a battalion of OG and that this precipitated the French retreat from Plancenoit. |
 Whirlwind | 25 Feb 2019 7:46 a.m. PST |
Is there an account somewhere of Duchard's battery? I am always very interested when artillery is claimed to have set up within 100m of enenmy troops. |
| NedZed | 25 Feb 2019 11:51 p.m. PST |
I took the timed test: "You scored: 644 / 1000
You scored 8 questions correct on your first try.
You have earned 107 FunTrivia points for this quiz.
The average score for this quiz: 5 / 10"
Getting old… |
| Tango01 | 26 Feb 2019 10:57 a.m. PST |
Congrats!.
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Armand
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| deadhead | 26 Feb 2019 3:28 p.m. PST |
Be careful. Two other quiz links are now proving dangerous! |
| huevans011 | 26 Feb 2019 5:29 p.m. PST |
Norton flipped out and started giving me red flags about web attacks on this site. I bugged out fast! |
| Musketballs | 26 Feb 2019 5:55 p.m. PST |
Watch out for the forthcoming Osprey: Napoleon's Hackers |
| C M DODSON | 02 Mar 2019 9:52 a.m. PST |
7/10 off the top of my head so reasonably pleased. Still, must do better. Chris |
gets started with Flintloque.
