Battle of Waterloo: Morning of June 18th, 1815

A clip from the movie Waterloo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066549/).

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[givemethelotion]

this film must have cost a fortune to make

[Zappiss]

@givemethelotion The extras were Soviet soldiers, so they didn't have to pay them much. :)

[23mbtx23]

@Zappiss do you have the extended version.. there are some great battle scenes added in or atleat expanded.. the scene of the initial attack at hougamont pans to the right an extra 10 seconds or so.. the cav attack has added scenes... there is extra dialogue when napoleon goes to personally lead the old guard. stuff like that. My dad is in the Napoleonic military history author fall of fame and i grew up around it and am a military history major myself. i see u post some good military history!

[Zappiss]

@23mbtx23 Thanks. I have the normal dvd version, is it the extended one or is there another release besides that one? And by the way, are you familiar with the 1000+ page book "the Campaigns of Napoleon" by David G. Chandler? I just stumbled upon it in the library, it seems that it's regarded as the definitive history of the Napoleonic wars, got to read it when I have the time... I'd be glad to hear your comments if you know it.

[pennbzh]

@EddieExile

today your economy rank or your army is not better than ours, and if you loose Scotland

First French empire with the grande armée of Nap. was one of the greatest army ever, and the best proof is that everybody in the world knows who is Napoleon

In 1805 or 1811 ruled Europe it's ruled the world, we taked madrid berlin wien moscow etc.. you can denigrate that i don't care, no many nations can say that

Like the werhmacht we finally loose again the number not against England

[pennbzh]

@EddieExile

for your comment "france did nothing after 1815" we won the ww1 with you you remember?we paid the much more tribute to the victory and for the ww2 like in 1805 thanks mother nature not your army, no channel no battle of england, a sea to cross is not a field. (i don't denigrate your ww2RAF)

Nothing after 1815, we are the country of culture, art, food, citizen rights, the most visited etc...the list is long and England?

[Talbot6832]

WHERE CAN I FIND OUT THE 5 HOUR UNCUT VERSION? Apparently the battles makes more sense with it.

[Alfrey619]

"Sir, what are your plans?" ... "To beat the French."

Good Old Wellington

[EddieExile]

@MrRomulusenRemus

Yes that was 15 years out of 100 - when they won some land battles in Europe, got totally owned by the British at sea, destroyed by the Russians in 1812, and bled dry by the Spanish/Portugese/British in the Peninsular war.

[MrRomulusenRemus]

@EddieExile yes...? and before 1815 ;P

[EddieExile]

@MrRomulusenRemus

France did nothing after 1815 - and got pawned in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war.