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we're awake for day 6 of our subathon - we're still working through normal raffles at this point but keep your eyes peeled for a special live2d raffle in a little bit!
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Here's the nice work from yesterday ✒️🖤
#blucher #AzurLane
#WaterlooLive #OTD
Right Now: 17th June 1815 00:01
Blucher has been saved by one of his junior staff after having a horse shot from under him. They escape capture from the French, & he receives treatment for his bruises at a farm. He is in his 70s.
Credit: Royal Collection Trust
#WaterlooLive #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 buy his men time to withdraw in an orderly fashion. His horse is killed in the action, and he is presumed dead
Blucher played a leading role in toppling Napoleon in 1813-14, fighting at Katzbach, Mockern, Leipzig, Brienne, La Rothiere, Champaubet, Vauchamps, Laon & Paris. He co-ordinated closely with Wellington throughout the 1815 campaign, with their strategy being to fight combined
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.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher died #otd in 1819. Nicknamed Marshall Vorwärts, he is best known for liberating Germany from Napoleonic rule in 1813, coming to Wellington's aid at Waterloo in 1815, and taking over Napoleonic Twitter in 2020. Oh, and the elephants. #MarshalBlucher
#MarshalBlucher
So it started as a joking comment and then it became a reality.
Could we get a Napoleonic name trending on Twitter?
What a wild, intense and fun ride!
Literally a global community came together and got it done!
@JayLG85 The come help us make #MarshalBlucher start trending, mein freund!
@Artemisapphire @DiariesEmpire Why #MarshalBlucher are you doing this on #WelllingtonWednesday?
@ProfDaveAndress @latelordchatham Of course, had #MarshalBlucher actually given birth to an elephant, this is what it would look like.
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@Artemisapphire @DiariesEmpire @tom4141tom #MarshalBlucher? I hear he's on a mug. https://t.co/roCbYlVjNq