yes-Iforgotten; I was going to mention that cuirassier too. And French units who had never seen highlanders before were puzzled by the highlanders they came across after Quatre Bras.

Russia also had Peasant units such as the Moscow Opolonche.... they carried long spears only and had no real uniforms. I wouldn't be surprised if local village women tended to troops injured nearby battlefields either. Not in the battle though I assume. But some women did disguise themselves as men and fought in the Napoleonic wars as soldiers.

Well just the helmet was a cuirassier trumpeter's for sure... why he charged around like an officer and wore a Brit jacket is a funny mystery.

hello again;
The helmet is definitely that of a French cuirassier trumpeter -haha, very odd that in the clip he looks like a fighting officer; I suspect the jacket was supposed to be something similar a trumpeters as they wore no body armour. Jackets for them should be green [ in 1815 anyway ] with lots of trimming. Maybe this red jacket was a unique 1812 case the re-enactor knows about and wanted to depict.

Indeed, feel like a new man since India, but that doesnt give you carte-blanche to talk in anyway you please felloh. Proper dacorum still very much required what!, unless your going to be like that other insolent cully.
Now excuse me while i try and expel this shiny sixpence from my system. hem!

Obliged sir, obliged.

I was exhonarated sir IFor of all charges, and be careful who you speak to, i have friends at Horse Guards, ahem, hem.
Excuse me feeling a bit ruddy cheeked what!

thanks again- very kind comments- I like to give those 'caricatured' allied soldiers the proper factual memory they deserve in their brave efforts as new recruits in standing their ground in so-bloody a campaign. They fought and died bravely, and need their stories rightfully told instead of smeared by false myths which is why I appear sometimes very harsh against the 'biased' story-tellers..... yes, very true about the fact that Wellington's center would've been in dire peril and risk of cracking had not the Prussian arrival [ brave movement away from their secure lines of retreat to Prussia] drawn away one third of Napoleon's army - one corps, and the Young Gard as well as many cavalry units/ artillery units. Please Stay in touch on occasion.

haha- I see you also came across PintJohnBull who cried and cried about people not glorifying the British at Waterloo. Many nationalist Brits like him close down their accounts after a few months when all the Waterloo historians come along and correct their biased ultra pro-British flawed version of Waterloo.

thanks- I love that Borodino clip you favourited.... peasant women in the re-enactment too! I believe those were the spectacular Russian Lifeguard infantry shown at the start. Those were superb troops. I see you have dummies coming on your page too squawking about you not knowing history. Those idiots are a joke.