"Waterloo Podcast" Topic

Back on track with the 30th Cambridgeshire Foot
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Back on track with the 30th Cambridgeshire Foot
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A terrific resource. Thanks

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The 33rd Regt of Foot, 1st Yorkshire West Riding
A bit on troops making themselves scarce yet not much written. We all know on game boards our troops run away so a interesting subject.

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69th South Lincolnshire

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73 Foot

The Researcher and narrator of this podcast says that Thomas Morris didn't mention the breaking and retiring of the 33rd/69th, when in fact, he does.

Someone posted in podcast 21 The 69th:

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"Sounds more dramatic than I remember. Maybe he is mixing up the incidents:

Morris of the 73rd later wrote,

"The next square to us, was charged at the same time, and were unfortunately broken into and retired in confusion, followed by the curassiers; but the Life Guards coming up, the French in their turn, were obliged to retrogade, and the 33rd and 69th resumed their position, in square, on our right, and maintained it during the rest of the day."

I responded: That recollection comes from Private Thomas Morris of the 73rd: "Our other square, the 33rd and 69th, suffered themselves to be broken and were driven back a short distance, when some of the Life Guards came up to their assistance, drove the enemy back in their turn"

Which did not happen because of enemy cavalry. It occurred because of the misunderstanding of a general order which in turn, led to panic.

Apart from that! The narrator skirts neatly around the rather tall tails that Thomas Morris relates in his personal telling and 'Three Sergeants' publications.

The narrator also says that the Tower Hamlets was a militia unit when in fact, they were a volunteer unit.

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Sandhams battery

Martin seems to really be investigating these units. b He does pop in occasionally so maybe he will see this.

14Bore many thanks for plugging my episodes! I came to do the same and you've kindly done it for me :)

Glad you're enjoying them!

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7th Hussars

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13 light Dragoons

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15th Hussars
Lots of fascinating information in this one to me

Ramsay's Troop

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One of my newest units

Terrific series. What a resource this will prove to be, as it grows. Surely very commercially significant eventually (and worth it)

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Coldsteam Guards

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The 1st Dragoons, the Royals

So would expect the other 2 Union Brigade Regiments coming up

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2nd Royal North British Dragoons

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And finishing the Union Brigade, the Inniskillings

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Roger's battery

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1st Royal Scots

What a resource this will be in the future. What is the long term plan, for something of this historical significance, I do wonder?

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The 42nd

Been waiting for this one

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44th East Essex Regiment
3/4 who were Irish

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92 Gordon Highlander

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A Troop, Ross's

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10th Prince of Wales Hussars

The 18th King's Irish Hussars is up
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I discovered this series fairly recently, and have found it an excellent thing to listen to whilst doing other work, occasionally rewinding to re-hear any "What?!?!?!" moments. The most memorable of these occurred during the 1st Foot episode, when a sergeant's diary was used to recount the 1st picking up a recruit in Cork, as they boarded ship for Antwerp prior to the 100 Days. This poor chap didn't even receive a uniform before going into action at Quatre Bras, where he was wounded in the hand and soon after invalided out without ever replacing his civilian clothes or firing his musket once in anger.

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RHA E troop Gardiner's

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4th King's Own

Bit of a hiatus but back with regular episode

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27th Foot

I listen to it while painting. I appreciate the work that has gone into it.

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40th 2nd Somersetshire

I really want to find whats missing

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Beane's D Troop

Terrific. I had never read any account of Bean(e)'s Troop. No one seems agreed on the spelling, even the plaque in the church drops the "E". For a unit so engaged, right up to the final advance, it is odd that they are so little known. Well to me anyway.

Take home messages of novelty; the casualty rate amongst occifers especially, that gunners did sit on the limbers on occasion, that a troop could withdraw to "the village" (surely Mt St Jean and not Waterloo as stated) and find time to bury their CO in the midst of such a battle. I will concede that a very few men can dig a grave and many can instead see to ammo resupply, but one can understand why the DoW might have been hacked off and seen it differently. He was not known for his patience and tolerance.

Terrific research yet again. What a resource this proving to be. I cannot find anything at the bottom, as stated, to help fund this. I am a simple Irish eejet mind you

The 1815 War Office's Army List has his name spelt with an "e" – link

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3rd Foot Guards

23 Light Dragoons
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F Troop Webber Smith

We must express respect yet again. Fantastic resource.

I am sure there are far more views than suggested by the responses posted. This whole site is notable for lack of any feedback over the last year or so. The usual suspects keep it going, the multitude seems apathetic.

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52nd

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71st Highland

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2nd and 3rd Batt of 95th Rifles

I've posted this picture before but I thought I'd post it again here, seeing as he belonged to Francis Le'Blanc's Company

That's awesome

At least he has the traditional headwear. I cannot come to terms with the idea of a Belgic "shako" by 1815….yuk

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Capt Mercer's troop for a special Waterloo Day anniversary

As always, the podcast represents a remarkable research into the members of the unit described. It is notable how many lived to a great age in a time when public health was far from satisfactory. If you survived childhood and infectious diseases, battlefields and gunfire, then you were a selected survivor.

The analysis of Mercer could be more questioned however. His stopping of the French cavalry assault, contrary to orders to withdraw to square, is hard to understand, if the attack was intended to pressed home. Just work out shots per minute against ground covered by horsemen. Then every Allied unit that came to his aid was described as "Beastly drunk" (God knows where they found such bounty that day). Then the Prussian battery that engaged him, way, way to the West of LHS. Quite impossible. The site suggests he was unpopular with his peers as a novice to the field, but there is a rumour that it was felt he could "gild the lily" though gifted as an author

Deadhead. There's no contemporary written or pictorial evidence that the 95th wore the 'Belgic' cap. Same goes for the cap badge when serving on campaign.

The universal adoption of the "Belgic" shako, well before 1815 has caused some heated discussion. Here are just two of many links. Which may or may not be authoritative. One also says the 71st wore the stovepipe cap. It may have ended up that shape, but it was not such

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I am confident (really hope) that they are wrong and contemporary evidence is lacking