Patrolling before the Battle of Waterloo 1815

[idle44]

Epic!

[zipsrule]

Dog chasing him. LOL.

[thedukeofantioch]

id love to join.

[van1980]

2:50 he spots a Cuirassier. :)

BTW, what do you think of Cold Steel's 1796 sabre? Is that what you use? Or is the peen not correct enough?

[Chrisos1796]

@van1980

Cheers, pretty hard to make a movie with one actor eh...

Yes you are right, my sabre is a cold steel. It's a good well made well balanced sword, but it's nowhere near as handy as an original. Also the blade is to narrow at the tip compared to a real one...

Cheers,

C

[Ella3000]

Love this... So tremenduously cool... (Greetings from a Swedish dragoon....)

[Fleax1973]

this is pretty cool stuff!! great work

[poomtang]

Nice vid, stummbled across this, very happy to see you blokes are still going.

regards

Neil Leonard

[Suppressingfire]

i love this battle, i'm not sure if its true or not but Marshall Ney (when thaught the British were retreating) led the biggest cavalry charge in all history around15 - 20,000 horsemen 0_0 however, they have been repulsed by the British squere formations, I have great respect for Napoleon & Duke Wellington althaugh without Blucher's Prussians the battle would be lost.

[Cr0Fighter]

@Suppressingfire i agree

[eanwelly]

i disagree

[slizzler1]

@Suppressingfire

Actually 10,000 cavalry vs. Allied squares in a series of charges.

- 40% of Wellington's army were British.

[Suppressingfire]

@slizzler1 really, tnkx for the tip mate, yes i understand there were Dutch & German troops among wellingdton's allies if i'm not mistaken.

[slizzler1]

@Suppressingfire

no problem- the charges started off with 1 of 2 French cavalry corps and other cavalry - about 5,000 men. After 1 hour Napoleon directly intervened by adding his other Heavy cavalry Corps which swelled the total up to around 10,000. The cavalry did not do too much damage except mentally drain the Allied infantry. The French artillery did terrible damage though against the Allied squares even though they were firing blind and lobbing shots over the ridge the allies were behind.

[laiyuzeng]

I LIKE this! Though I'm a Chinese, I love their cool uniform! Keep posting more videos about them.

Hail chivalry! :D

[condorlegion89]

What happenned to your lance? no lance or cavalry rifle?

[Chrisos1796]

Hiya, Hussar regiments were issued with a sabre, cavalry carbine and a braced of pistols...

The British army werent issued lances until 1816 - personally having fought lancers before my opinion is that they are a dreadful weapon for fighting a mounted opponent. Especially when the lancers are out of formation (it's so easy to manoeuvre past the point)

Cheers

[condorlegion89]

Ohhhh thanks man! I imagined they would carry such things but nevermind haha

[DiVeronica]

@Chrisos1796 so, when exactly have you personally faced off against a lancer? Is there some modern coliseum I'm unaware of?

[zipsrule]

@DiVeronica :-)

[Cr0Fighter]

@condorlegion89 hussars have saber...they don't have lance,and some have short rifle/carabine

[johnboyexcel]

As a proud historian I have no holes to pick in this, but the farmer in me would like to point out the first varieties of OILSEED RAPE were developed well into the 20th century XXX

[JamesBenwick]

Well wellington was still uncertain at this point as to what route the french would advance.

And to be fair the french staff work was poor, therefore disrupting their timetable so no-one would of known what they were doing, least of all themselves.

[slizzler1]

Very nice- it looks like he's strayed off to look for the Prussians. :D

[AdPaylor]

Some nice camera work! look forward to seeing more videos :o)