"Did iron and iron ever meet?" Topic
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Gunfreak  | 20 Apr 2019 12:20 p.m. PST |
Did the Iron Marshal and the Iron Duke ever meet? |
| JimDuncanUK | 20 Apr 2019 2:48 p.m. PST |
Not sure I know who the Iron Marshal is. |
 Artilleryman | 20 Apr 2019 2:56 p.m. PST |
Assuming this is Davout (a personal favourite), never on the battlefield. They may have met during Wellington's time in France after the wars but I have never seen it recorded. |
 deadhead | 20 Apr 2019 2:59 p.m. PST |
Davout. I presume you mean on a battlefield? No…….he was only involved in Eastern European campaigns and notably left behind in 1815. He was involved in the final defence of Paris after Waterloo, but does not really count. If you mean socially……very tricky and entirely possible |
| Gunfreak | 20 Apr 2019 3:00 p.m. PST |
No I mean "socially"
They have certain similar personalities. |
| Mike Petro | 20 Apr 2019 5:37 p.m. PST |
Soult famously met Wellington, as you all know. Interesting exchange there. |
| Musketballs | 20 Apr 2019 7:07 p.m. PST |
Not sure how well Soult took the implication that he was extremely skilled at retreating… |
| holdit | 21 Apr 2019 6:43 a.m. PST |
I believe Wellington and Foy got on well and met a number of times after Waterloo. |
 ColCampbell | 21 Apr 2019 1:25 p.m. PST |
IIRC, the biography of Davout that I recently read made mention of the two meeting socially. They definitely did not meet on the battlefield, although that would make an interesting battle. Jim |
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