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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: shandy on June 12, 2015, 08:53:30 AM

Title: The Women of Waterloo
Post by: shandy on June 12, 2015, 08:53:30 AM

Hi!

In time for the big anniversary, this month's Wargaming Warrior Women article focusses on the Vivandières and Cantinières present at the battle of Waterloo.

(https://wargamingraft.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/pic31.jpg)

https://wargamingraft.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/the-women-of-waterloo/ (https://wargamingraft.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/the-women-of-waterloo/)

I hope you enjoy it!

Cheers
Shandy

Title: Re: The Women of Waterloo
Post by: gustav on June 12, 2015, 01:02:46 PM

Interesting and some great models there too.

I am sure I read once that one of the last if not last survivor of Waterloo was a lady who was there as a child of 4 or 6 - who helped her Mum rip up linen etc for bandages and could still remember the day.  If I remember correctly she may have even survived until the early part of the 20th century.

Title: Re: The Women of Waterloo
Post by: Harry Faversham on June 12, 2015, 01:39:28 PM

If memory serves, a sad little story of Waterloo was of an Old Guard Grenadier's wife, who was killed by an English cannonball, early in the day. The Grenadier, assisted by a couple of comrades, buried her at the roadside. I think I'm right in saying her husband was later killed in a square at the Old Guard's last stand.

Title: Re: The Women of Waterloo
Post by: shandy on June 13, 2015, 09:41:22 AM

Thanks guys!

Quote from: Harry Faversham on June 12, 2015, 01:39:28 PM

If memory serves, a sad little story of Waterloo was of an Old Guard Grenadier's wife, who was killed by an English cannonball, early in the day.

Yes, that's the story I was referring to in the blog article. I read it in the Barbero book on Waterloo, which I liked very much.