"Waterloo weather" Topic
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| 4th Cuirassier | 10 Sep 2019 2:33 a.m. PST |
This may have been posted before but it was news to me:
link …the weather had another influence on the battle – visibility…in the undulating, partly wooded area
around Mont St Jean, boundary layer influences would subdue the winds to perhaps as little as force 3, while calms were reported at Lille. Add to this the damp ground and propensity to mist, with the inevitable smoke of musket and cannon and one has the veritable ‘fog of war'. How many of the mistakes – not realising Hougoumont was there, for example – were because visibility was poor? |
| arthur1815 | 10 Sep 2019 3:42 a.m. PST |
Interesting, thanks for posting the link. |
| 4th Cuirassier | 10 Sep 2019 6:13 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it boys! (smile) |
| 4DJones | 10 Sep 2019 6:15 a.m. PST |
And the white cross-belts of the British infantry turned pink after the downpour on Saturday 17th June when the dye in the uniform jackets ran.
How many paint that detail? |
| 4th Cuirassier | 10 Sep 2019 6:26 a.m. PST |
Probably quite a few, red paint's a  like that :-) |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
