A Scot's Grey at Waterloo: The Remarkable Story of Sergeant William Clarke.

[Von Richter]

I never thought I'd say, "wot a load of crap", about a Napoleonic Wars book by Gareth Glover!
Sadly, that's what this is. Trust me on this, you will emerge absolutely none the wiser as to what sergeant William Clarke experienced at the Battle of Waterloo, than what you are now...
350 pages of boring drivel!

[Massena]

Well, don't sugar coat it, tell us what you really think!

[Von Richter]

It's called 'constructive criticism'!
I'm trying this one next...


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[Nick the Noodle]

I never thought I'd say, "wot a load of crap", about a Napoleonic Wars book by Gareth Glover!
Sadly, that's what this is. Trust me on this, you will emerge absolutely none the wiser as to what sergeant William Clarke experienced at the Battle of Waterloo, than what you are now...
350 pages of boring drivel!

All I know about the Scots Greys at Waterloo, is that the film apparently doesn't do them justice. They stomped all over a French infantry column, before being repulsed, which was not shown. Apparently, they neither had copper nails to spike the cannons either.

It should be noted that while my wife's family live around the Waterloo sites, and that I walk around the site of the battle once a year, my knowledge of the battle itself is minimal. Happy to be educated further .

[Von Richter]

That part of the film's a tad daft, somehow 15,000 frenchies disappear from in front of the Greys as they charge straight into the enemy guns then get massacred in a hidden swamp by Lancers, magnificent hokum!.
Here's a bit of 'education' about spiking guns. Boneypartists wax lyrical about the damage that could have been wreaked upon the Allied guns, if only one Curryasar had thought to bring a bag of headless nails, up His Grace's ridge.
Well if said Curryasar had looked in the tool box of the gun he'd have found a bag of nails and a lump hammer for just that job, every gun had one so the gunners could spike their own piece in an emergency...

"For want of a nail the battle was lost!"

[Snowygerry]

It should be noted that while my wife's family live around the Waterloo sites, and that I walk around the site of the battle once a year, my knowledge of the battle itself is minimal.

While the battlefield itself is nice, it doesn't really resemble the field as it looked in 1815...

For a more "enlightening" trip try retracing the route Grouchy and the Prussians took, over Waver and then try to get onto the "Waterloo" field from the east,

makes you appreciate the timely arrival of the one, and understand the belated appearance of the other…

you may want to take a bike though, it's quite a walk

[Nick the Noodle]

While the battlefield itself is nice, it doesn't really resemble the field as it looked in 1815...

For a more "enlightening" trip try retracing the route Grouchy and the Prussians took, over Waver and then try to get onto the "Waterloo" field from the east,

makes you appreciate the timely arrival of the one, and understand the belated appearance of the other…

you may want to take a bike though, it's quite a walk

Something else to do once the kids have grown up .