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Offline Igneus_Acta

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Re: The french `surrender` chant...
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2013, 09:25:55 am »
Yeah the russian ones are my fav.

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Re: The french `surrender` chant...
« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2013, 07:43:55 am »
But french never surrender that's very famous famous.... oh wait  ;D
But old guard surrended only one time, at the end of the battle of Waterloo and the surrender of the guard means the end of Napoleon  :'(

The Old Guard never surrendered. I don't believe they even fought the British at Waterloo. the old guard (the 1er and 2e Grenadiers and Chasseurs) were engaged with pushing the Prussians out if Plancenoit. Which they did quite well, they only fell back to protect the emperor as he called for his forces to withdraw.

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Re: The french `surrender` chant...
« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2013, 11:52:25 am »
I beleave the brunt of the attack of the Allied line was lead by I/2e Chasseurs. Not precisely sure, though they were chasseurs. They were met by a Dutch horse artillery battery and took heavy casulaties from the canister shot.