SUBSIM: The Web's #1 resource for all submarine & naval simulations since 1997 |
11-22-21, 12:42 PM | #1 |
Grey Wolf
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Paris/France
Posts: 762
Downloads: 254
Uploads: 0
|
Photographs of French Napoleon’s Veterans
__________________
\"Le Triomphant\" listens you ! |
11-23-21, 11:58 PM | #2 |
Fleet Admiral
|
That's totally cool.
__________________
|
11-24-21, 06:25 AM | #3 |
Soaring
|
The real meaning of "dressed to kill".
Reminds me of some chapters in John Keegan's "A History of Warfare" where he talks about that warrior castes often accept absurd, even hindering attachments to their armour and clothing only because it was tradition or a way of expressing resistence to changing fighting methods and modernization having its ways. Those photos impress due to the details. And the peacock-like posing of the subjects. Nice find! Those clothings do not look comfortable. Maybe that is their purpose: to keep the warrior in a grim mood.
__________________
If you feel nuts, consult an expert.
|
11-24-21, 10:55 PM | #4 | |
Fleet Admiral
|
Quote:
Skybird, did you ever see the TV series "Soldiers", based on Keegan's book? It's the best! I still have the original VHS tape I used to record it off TV!
__________________
|
|
11-25-21, 03:06 AM | #5 |
Soaring
|
No, but now I will keep my eyes open for it. 't was a good book. Thanks for the hint!
__________________
If you feel nuts, consult an expert.
|
11-25-21, 04:08 AM | #6 |
Ocean Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 3,266
Downloads: 0
Uploads: 0
|
Somebody should see if Peter Jackson would colorize these.
__________________
Looks like we need a Lemon Law for Presidents now! DNC sold us a dud, and they knew it. |
11-25-21, 12:46 PM | #7 | |
Fleet Admiral
|
Quote:
It's on youtube, let me see if this link works for you: Tank episode:
__________________
|
|
11-25-21, 02:55 PM | #8 |
Soaring
|
It does work over here for sure. Thank you! Links stored away, will watch it in the near future.
__________________
If you feel nuts, consult an expert.
|
11-25-21, 03:01 PM | #9 |
Shark above Space Chicken
|
I wish my friends and I could wear these for Mardi Gras next year.
__________________
"However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie |
11-26-21, 09:28 AM | #10 | |
Wayfaring Stranger
|
Quote:
Are you French? You wouldn't want to be accused of Cultural Appropriation Dude!
__________________
Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see. |
|
11-26-21, 01:51 PM | #11 |
Grey Wolf
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Paris/France
Posts: 762
Downloads: 254
Uploads: 0
|
__________________
\"Le Triomphant\" listens you ! |
11-26-21, 02:07 PM | #12 |
Grey Wolf
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Paris/France
Posts: 762
Downloads: 254
Uploads: 0
|
The last Waterloo living soldier photo
__________________
\"Le Triomphant\" listens you ! |
11-26-21, 02:11 PM | #13 |
Shark above Space Chicken
|
I'm certain there is at least one French molecule in there somewhere.
__________________
"However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie |
11-26-21, 02:21 PM | #14 |
Grey Wolf
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Paris/France
Posts: 762
Downloads: 254
Uploads: 0
|
Remains of Napoleonic General
__________________
\"Le Triomphant\" listens you ! |
11-26-21, 02:43 PM | #15 |
Grey Wolf
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Paris/France
Posts: 762
Downloads: 254
Uploads: 0
|
General Henri Rottembourg
__________________
\"Le Triomphant\" listens you ! |
|
|