"Battle for Paris 1815: The Untold Story of the Fighting" Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Jun 2020 9:25 p.m. PST |
…After Waterloo. "On the morning of 3 July 1815, the French General R�mi Joseph Isidore Exelmans, at the head of a brigade of dragoons, fired the last shots in the defence of Paris until the Franco-Prussian War sixty-five years later. Why did he do so? Traditional stories of 1815 end with Waterloo, that fateful day of 18 June, when Napoleon Bonaparte fought and lost his last battle, abdicating his throne on 22 June. So why was Exelmans still fighting for Paris? Surely the fighting had ended on 18 June? Not so. Waterloo was not the end, but the beginning of a new and untold story…" Main page
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| Brechtel198 | 06 Jun 2020 4:56 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 08 Jun 2020 3:19 p.m. PST |
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| von Winterfeldt | 12 Jun 2020 3:31 a.m. PST |
untold? OK – in case you ignore German books. |
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