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Offline Harry Faversham

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Waterloo... again!
« on: April 01, 2021, 09:04:27 AM »
To celebrate the end of the current plague lockdown I'm thinking of having a pop at Waterloo.
One thing I can't figure out is, did DeErlon have artillery support moving forward with his columns during the first big attack, as was common French practice in the Peninsula. It's on record that the British Cavalry counter attack 'slaughtered gunners and cut the traces of their gun teams'. I'm wondering if said guns were plodding forward with the Infantry, or parked up with the Grand Battery?

???
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Offline vtsaogames

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Re: Waterloo... again!
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2021, 01:03:17 PM »
I've read that the Union Brigade got into part of the grand battery. That's why their horses were so jaded. Long ride across the valley, longer going back.
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Online Jemima Fawr

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Re: Waterloo... again!
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2021, 03:57:56 PM »
Yes.  There's a lower intermediate ridge/spur in the valley, running roughly eastward from La Haye Sainte and horse artillery deployed forward to that position to support the attack.  The feature is not all that apparent on most maps unless they've got 5m contour lines, but it's very obvious when you stand there.
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Offline Harry Faversham

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Re: Waterloo... again!
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2021, 08:27:29 PM »
Thanks chaps.

 :)

 

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