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#OnThisDay 31 Aug-1 Sept 1813.

Combat at Vera, in heavy rain the advancing Division of French troops were held up by 2 Companies (only 100 men) of 95th Rifles, across a narrow bridge.

Commanded by Captain Cadoux, who requests for support were denied, they held out overnight.

@GarryLavin Two battalions served in Crimea.

Other regiments had Rifles by this point (the Minie), towards the end of the war the RB received the Long Enfield Rifle.

In the earlier stages of the war, they led attacks & rearguards. But still suffered in the trenches.

(fording the Alma)

'Capture of the Eagle, Waterloo'

Cpl Styles & his Squadron Leader, Capt Alexander Kennedy Clarke of the Life Guards, captured the Eagle of the 105eme Regiment during hand-to-hand fighting.

Cpl Styles received a promotion to Sergeant as a reward.

(by William Holmes Sullivan)

The Battle of Smolensk, 16 to 18 August 1812.

Seeing that they were in a hopeless situation, during 3rd night the Russian army evacuated the burning city & continued their retreat east.

(By Pyotr Ivanovich Zhigimont)

Ship's surgeon 'The Cockpit after battle'.

On a ship's table the surgeon removes bullets & huge wooden splinters from the sailors & Marines sometimes from their foe too, assisted by Mates.

Patients were conscious even as the surgeon performs amputations.

(By Stephen Biesty)

@nigelbetts It is interesting!

The allies suffered 53 killed, 98 wounded & 45 captured

KGL Brigade commander, de Joncquières, was captured.

The French officer casualties were 1 killed & 15 wounded. It is likely that the the troopers suffered a similar level to the Portuguese & KGL.

A French Officer taken prisoner at the Battle of Nicopolis, 1798, taunted by his captors with the severed head of his comrade.

(by Felician von Myrbach)

General Ali Pasha forced the French prisoners to walk in procession, holding the salted heads of their comrades!

Officer & private of the Regiment de Mortemart (a regiment in the pay of the British & largely composed of royalist emigrants), around 1799.

Part of the Armée des Émigrés, loyalist French who moved around different nations against the Revolution.

By Patrice Courcelle.

@ORWH98 Permission to go super nerdy...

Wellington, with his multinational staff, rides past British Infantry during the Waterloo Campaign.

In his iconic bicorn hat, Wellington wore cockades to represent the allied nations, which reflects Wellington's diplomacy in the coalition.

(By Patrice Courcelle)