The ask a Historical Question thread

[TWking]

All in the title really, ask a question about history so some of you forumers here who have an Uber knowledge on the subject can answer.
Preferably short questions(and already googled).

Ill start off.
My friend who has recently picked up on the subject of the Napoleonic Wars and he asked me did "many of the marshals survived the war and who?"
Now i didn't know myself so i googled it and found very little. So my question did many of Napoleon's marshals survive the NWs(and who) and don't tell me about the Ney living theory(whilst interesting it doesn't really help me)

[Walko]

An interesting question! I have no idea don't know much about the French, although I think that at least one marshal survived and became a king of a country?

[Duuring]

That's Bernadotte.

Just find the list of Napoleons marshals (Wikipedia) and go by them one by one. Won't cost you that much time.

[TWking]

That's Bernadotte.

Just find the list of Napoleons marshals (Wikipedia) and go by them one by one. Won't cost you that much time.

Didnt think of that *face palm*

[Desert Thunda]

What if we do not trust Wikipedia.

[Nipplestockings]

What if we do not trust Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is entirely trustworthy. If you don't trust it then at the very least look at the bibliography instead of dismissing it entirely. 

[The Mighty McLovin]

Bumping this because I don't want to make a separate thread for a question.

Anyways, this isn't really a history question, but who are these painted by? There is paintings of Prussian soldiers and I'm using one for my avatar but who made them? Some examples:

[Nipplestockings]

Edouard Detaille

[The Mighty McLovin]

Edouard Detaille

Edourd Detaille, I bet he puts a lot of detaille into his paintings. 

Are you sure it's him though? I can't find his paintings?

[Frederik]

no, its the younger knötel, these are pictures you could collect, they were in pack of cigaretts of the firma sturm.
google Sturm Zigarettenbilder Knötel.
or click on this link http://www.grosser-generalstab.de/sturm/sturm20.html

[The Mighty McLovin]

no, its the younger knötel, these are pictures you could collect, they were in pack of cigaretts of the firma sturm.
google Sturm Zigarettenbilder Knötel.
or click on this link http://www.grosser-generalstab.de/sturm/sturm20.html

Thank you.

[Nipplestockings]

Oh yeah, one of the paintings was misattributed to Detaille on google. The styles are pretty similar though.

[Duuring]

Not really. Detaille paints highly realistic figures, with full backgrounds.

[Archduke Sven]

Not really. Detaille paints highly realistic figures, with full backgrounds.

'non-homophobic stick up his ass comment'

[William]

When do you think the FSE forums were at their prime? (Technically historical)