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#Waterloo #OTD
Right Now 16th June 1815 19:30

Seeing his army is about to be routed, Blucher leads a cavalry charge to hold back the advancing French, and but his men time to withdraw in an orderly fashion. His horse is killed in the action, and he is presumed dead

#Waterloo #OTD
Right Now 15th June 1815 10:45

Zeithen’s second message that Charleroi is under threat reaches Blucher. With the River Sambre about to be crossed by the French, Blucher has to make a decision on how to respond. Both delay or hastiness could be fatal

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Fought #OTD 1st June 1794, the (not very imaginatively named) 'Glorious First of June'.

Painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg

Some imaginative tactics from British commander Lord Howe, though both sides claimed victory.
For full details see thread by Navy Queen @kejamieson_

Old Blucher beating the Corsican big drum.

Bottom humour on full display in this 1814 caricature by George Cruikshank. A similar one of Wellington and Blucher flogging Napoleon's bare buttocks was produced in 1815.

'Recruiter Deserted' by Georges Keating (1791)

From the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection.

So many emotions on display here - a whole story of the realities of war played out in one image - the classic case of a picturing being worth a thousand words

John Bull taking luncheon (1798), commenting on the Royal Navy's 'appetite' for destroying French frigates. Notice Nelson on the right.

Another masterpiece by Gillray

How it started: How its going:

For the record - its a scanned model, not the original skeleton, or Marengo suspended above Napoleon's tomb

The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcombe:

Rowlandson's sketches to accompany this (1815) book are a beautiful satirisation of military life in the Britain's army during Napoleonic Wars with its had drinking, smoking & gambling lifestyle.

#OnThisDay 18th May 1803, Britain declared war on France, bringing the peace negotiated at Amiens to an end.

Gillray's stunning print 'The Plumb Pudding in danger' (1805) satirises how both sides were consumed with terrirtorial ambitions during this period.