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1er_Gren_Mr_T said:

Great ducomentary! Gave me some precious info for when I start reenacting

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Yeah, really liked it too. The journalist did a great job. Nice to see the camp life and all that.

BetaKnight said:

Its ok. I dont know what type of unit that is but ok...

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I bet it's the uniform of the 27th Batallion Dutch Jaegers.

Documentary from RussiaToday of the Borodino reenactment (25 minutes):

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JDeNef13 said:

Captured Joe said:

Spoiler

The accompanying text in the book reads:
Here for instance is an example of what happened at Agen. The Prefet organised a great ball and invited neither the officers of the 10th Hussars [Lasalle's regiment] nor their Colonel. Very much put out, Lasalle did not hesitate and entered the ball with his hussars. Very quickly he cleared the whole place out: cloths, dishes, bottles, sweets were thrown very calmly from the window by the men of the 10th.
  The Prefet's official protest was sent to Paris and arrived on Bonaparte's desk who apparently said: "It takes just a signature to make a Prefet; it takes longer than twenty years to make a Lasalle!" Conclusion: Lasalle got thirty days' Guardroom and the Prefet was moved elsewhere.

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I think I have the same book lying around. I recognize the drawing. Can't recall the name of the book ATM.

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"Soldiers and Uniforms of Napoleonic Wars"?

Also, I feel obliged to commend that one of the few people here, who kept on-topic and didn't join the pointless trolling about the Balkan Country you-know-what, was Agovic.

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I have the French version called: Soldats et Uniformes du Premier Empire. Mostly French uniforms, last pages a few Allied ones. French foreign legions (Croats,...) are included too. Great source.

Vive la France et vive l'Empereur!

Captured Joe said:

The accompanying text in the book reads:
Here for instance is an example of what happened at Agen. The Prefet organised a great ball and invited neither the officers of the 10th Hussars [Lasalle's regiment] nor their Colonel. Very much put out, Lasalle did not hesitate and entered the ball with his hussars. Very quickly he cleared the whole place out: cloths, dishes, bottles, sweets were thrown very calmly from the window by the men of the 10th.
  The Prefet's official protest was sent to Paris and arrived on Bonaparte's desk who apparently said: "It takes just a signature to make a Prefet; it takes longer than twenty years to make a Lasalle!" Conclusion: Lasalle got thirty days' Guardroom and the Prefet was moved elsewhere.

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I think I have the same book lying around. I recognize the drawing. Can't recall the name of the book ATM.

Rangerplus10 said:

It's hilarious that a single city like Wurrtemberg was able to field it's own army, or was even independent.

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Certain "states" in the Confederation were that small, they couldn't even provide troops. They paid neighbouring kingdoms/states to field forces in their name. Just read about it in the uniform encyclopedia by Digbey Smith: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars. Highly recommendable source!

Was able to wear a French fusilier uniform today. A relative knows somebody who works for television/theater, and by chance that there were some Napoleonic uniforms available. The tailor who is fixing my uniform uses it to copy the components of the uniform. I'll hopefully can get a contact with the theater tailor of that uniform if they are willing to sell me one. The uniform was spot on, you could notice it was a copy because you had to close the front with paperclip like hooks. But once I had it on, you couldn't say if it was a remake. Buttons were right, good fabrics. It wasn't a 1812 model however, it looked like this one: http://corpsutler.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/dsc03439.jpg.w300h533.jpg

Only thing I didn't expect was that it was pretty heavy to wear, although this uniform was slightly too big. Would have bought it at an instance though!

More Malmaison:

Lithuanian duke said:

Talking about films, there is an upcoming russian film this fall, called "The Ballad of Uhlans". The plot is set during the time of Borodino battle. Maybe this can offer us more battlefield action.

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I remember reading about that film on IMDB. Looked nice.

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JDeNef13 said:

Other news: this year, the movie "Lines of Wellington" will be released, with John Malkovich as Wellesley. Set in Portugal/Spain, showing of his campaign against marshal Massena in the year 1810. Will be released as a series also. http://www.linesofwellington.com/en/lines_wellington_home.php

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Hell, is that the guy who played Taylerrand in the Napoleone series?
Also, I saw pics of Portugese Cacadores!

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Yeah, Malkovich played Talleyrand in the Napoleon miniseries. Noticed the Caçadores too. Only thing I fear will be the lack of battles. However, the quality looks great. The actor who plays Massena is like spot on IMO. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeRqqgyKvho

Other movies I can think of are Goya's Ghosts and Le colonel Chabert. Ofcourse there's The Duelists too.

Other news: this year, the movie "Lines of Wellington" will be released, with John Malkovich as Wellesley. Set in Portugal/Spain, showing of his campaign against marshal Massena in the year 1810. Will be released as a series also. http://www.linesofwellington.com/en/lines_wellington_home.php

Huge batch of photographs of the Battle of Borodino event (more coming next couple of days):
http://napoleon-monuments.eu/Napoleon1er/Borodino20120901.htm

Great website concerning news/events around the Napoleonic era (mostly French however): http://napoleon-monuments.eu/

French Empire - 36 points
Russian Empire - 33 points
United Kingdom - 43 points
Kingdom of Prussia - 33 points
Austrian Empire - 34 points
Bonapartist Spain - 22 points
Duchy of Warsaw - 31 points
Ottoman Empire - 27 points
Kingdom of Italy - 25 points
Kingdom of Sweden - 45 points
Kingdom of Denmark - 28 points
Kingdom of the Netherlands - 44 points
Kingdom of Bavaria - 47 points
Duchy of Wurtemburg - 21 points
Swiss Conf. - 31 points

More Malmaison videos:

Austerlitz event (past August):

French Empire - 33 points
Russian Empire - 34 points
United Kingdom - 39 points
Kingdom of Prussia - 31 points
Austrian Empire - 30 points
Bonapartist Spain - 23 points
Duchy of Warsaw - 31 points
Ottoman Empire - 25 points
Kingdom of Italy - 26 points
Kingdom of Sweden - 45 points
Kingdom of Denmark - 28points
Kingdom of the Netherlands - 43 points
Kingdom of Bavaria - 45 points
Duchy of Wurtemburg - 24 points
Swiss Conf. - 31 points
Kingdom of Naples - 12 points

French Empire - 33 points
Russian Empire - 33 points
United Kingdom - 42 points
Kingdom of Prussia - 29 points
Austrian Empire - 29 points
Bonapartist Spain - 23 points
Dutchy of Warsaw - 28 points
Ottoman Empire - 26 points
Kingdom of Italy - 26 points
Kingdom of Sweden - 39 points
Kingdom of Denmark - 29 points
Kingdom of the Netherlands - 43 points
Kingdom of Bavaria - 44 points
Duchy of Wurtemburg - 24 points
Swiss Conf. - 32 points
Kingdom of Naples - 20 points

Leipzig, probably as visitor. Hoping to go!

Any tips for my shako?

Impressions of the Imperial Jubilee event at Malmaison:

French Empire - 31 points
Russian Empire - 33 points
United Kingdom - 42 points
Kingdom of Prussia - 27 points
Austrian Empire - 28 points
Kingdom of Spain - 11 points
Bonapartist Spain - 25 points
Dutchy of Warsaw - 28 points
Ottoman Empire - 28 points
Kingdom of Italy - 26 points
Kingdom of Sweden - 34 points
Kingdom of Denmark - 29 points
Kingdom of the Netherlands - 43 points
Kingdom of Bavaria - 42 points
Duchy of Wurtemburg - 24 points
Swiss Conf. - 25 points
Kingdom of Naples - 24 points

Came back yesterday from Paris. Imperial Jubilee of Napoleon and Joséphine: 200 reenactors, thousands of visitors, free entrance into Malmaison and the Château de Bois Préau, Imperial market (weapons, uniforms, gadgets,...). Mark Schneider as Napoleon, he really is the Emperor!

Bought my French grenadier shako (pompon, cords, plate, chinscales,... see pictures) for €150! Only have to adjust it to my head (it's slighty too big right now). Would filling the shako up with cloth/paper do the trick, or do I have to adjust the size inside with a leather strip of sorts (need reenactor tips on this)?

Warning, large pictures ahead!!!

Why is the server locked? Need to enter TS for pw?

It's funny how people would want to see every musket era themed mod to be a bastard version of NW. There wouldn't be NW weren't it for Warband. And there are plenty of musket mods who run on Warband. Don't overrate NW please.