What would you have been?

[Emperor Napoleon]

I am quick and quiet, I would be a good Rifleman or Light Infantry.

Would you be willing to meet me in a dark room during school break?

 

[Bastard]

My family has a history of really angry criminals, so I wouldn't get a officer rank. At 14 I am tall, strong-ish and slightly not not not stupid. I guess I would end up just yelling at spotty recruits.

[GoldenEagle]

When I think about it, I think I would be a Grenadier, and if I survived, even make it to the Old guard (If I was born as a Frenchie)

[Duuring]

You don't have to be French to get into the Old guard. Or even the 1er Grenadiers.

[GoldenEagle]

You don't have to be French to get into the Old guard. Or even the 1er Grenadiers.

That would be good news for me in the 1800's

[Duuring]

Well, you did have to be Dutch and survive the peninsular war for about 4 years.

Napoleon ordered every battalion in Spain to give one veteran for the new Old guard, in 1813. This included two batallions of the 130eme de ligne, which used to be 1st bat, 2de ligne and 2nd bat, 4de ligne, of the Dutch army They were incorporated into the French army, and seen as French, in 1810. And as they had been in Spain since 1809, they stayed there.

I found one of those two men in the Roll call of a militia batallion in the Waterloo campaign.

[GoldenEagle]

Well, you did have to be Dutch and survive the peninsular war for about 4 years.

Napoleon ordered every battalion in Spain to give one veteran for the new Old guard, in 1813. This included two batallions of the 130eme de ligne, which used to be 1st bat, 2de ligne and 2nd bat, 4de ligne, of the Dutch army They were incorporated into the French army, and seen as French, in 1810. And as they had been in Spain since 1809, they stayed there.

I found one of those two men in the Roll call of a militia batallion in the Waterloo campaign.

Would it be still possible if we say for example that I was an Ottoman Turk that moved to Netherlands or Spain, and joined Dutch army and survived, or Spanish army for that sake?

[Duuring]

Well. No.

Sorry :p

Funny enough, the cavarly detachment fighting in Spain  (a regiment of Hussars) also became part of the guard as...the 2nd (red) lancers. Fuck logic.

[GoldenEagle]

Well. No.

Sorry :p

Funny enough, the cavarly detachment fighting in Spain  (a regiment of Hussars) also became part of the guard as...the 2nd (red) lancers. Fuck logic.

Welp, fuck me

[Van_Hulstein]

I would've been in some royal regiment in the Kingdom of Holland, than I would be a Dutch Grenadier in French service because I'm 1.89m tall.
They say the Dutch are the tallest people with 1.85m average, and especially the north of the Netherlands, were they are average 1.87m (I am living in the North of the Netherlands).
But now back on my life story:
If I survived Russia (chance 1%, would've probably frozen to death), I would've joined the 2de Grenadiers of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and fight in the hunderd days campaign, and than I would've come back and get a family 

[Jocam]

I would've been in some royal regiment in the Kingdom of Holland, than I would be a Dutch Grenadier in French service because I'm 1.89m tall.
They say the Dutch are the tallest people with 1.85m average, and especially the north of the Netherlands, were they are average 1.87m (I am living in the North of the Netherlands).
But now back on my life story:
If I survived Russia (chance 1%, would've probably frozen to death), I would've joined the 2de Grenadiers of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and fight in the hunderd days campaign, and than I would've come back and get a family 

If i had all the historical data, i wouldve started a book right here, rught now, ust about that story

[Duuring]

While we are among the tallest people in the world NOW, we used to be the smallest.

Personal research from the roll call of the 7de (which are mostly from Flanders) had lead me to the conclusion those men were on the average 166 cm, with as small as 140 and as high as 185.
It also seems height was barely important for being part of a flank company, but I've to do a little more research for that.

If anyone wants basicly ANY informations on Dutch 1813-15 units...I think I'm your man. Come on, give my life a purpose! 

[Jocam]

While we are among the tallest people in the world NOW, we used to be the smallest.

Personal research from the roll call of the 7de (which are mostly from Flanders) had lead me to the conclusion those men were on the average 166 cm, with as small as 140 and as high as 185.
It also seems height was barely important for being part of a flank company, but I've to do a little more research for that.

If anyone wants basicly ANY informations on Dutch 1813-15 units...I think I'm your man. Come on, give my life a purpose! 

Where do you GET all that research from?!

[Duuring]

Lots of sites and countless hours of research on the roll calls which are online. Just found another Russia veteran, this time in the 6de BvL. Really guys...lots of them DID survive.

[kpetschulat]

While we are among the tallest people in the world NOW, we used to be the smallest.

Personal research from the roll call of the 7de (which are mostly from Flanders) had lead me to the conclusion those men were on the average 166 cm, with as small as 140 and as high as 185.
It also seems height was barely important for being part of a flank company, but I've to do a little more research for that.

If anyone wants basicly ANY informations on Dutch 1813-15 units...I think I'm your man. Come on, give my life a purpose! 

Where do you GET all that research from?!

Lol, Duuring is Dutch. I can personally vouch for his extreme knowledge of the Napoleonic Era, especially anything having to do with Dutch/Belgish/Flemmish, w/e.