Code: PA709
- THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
- NAPOLEON BONAPARTE SIDE
The Waterloo campaign of 1815 was without exception
the most famous of the Nineteenth century. It was to
culminate in the final overthrow of Napoleon Bonaparte
and the end of twenty five years of warfare. Napoleon
Bonaparte, Emperor of the French and one time master
of the largest European empire since Rome, had marched
against Brussels in order to defeat the first of the
Allied armies before the others could attack. To oppose
Napoleon' s advance, two of the Allied armies were assembling.
The first being basically Anglo-Dutch and commanded
by the Duke of Wellington. The Duke, was already victor
in the earlier Peninsular War, a major factor in Napoleon's
earlier defeat and abdication. The final confrontation
on the 18th June was both climactic and costly in casualties:
over 80,000 combined forces fell that day. It is now
possible to share in the power struggle between these
two powerful tacticians with the Napoleonic Chess Set.
This way the outcome does not always have to be as it
was on that fateful day.
The opposition chess side is the Duke of Wellingtons side.
There are three molds, one for the king and queen, one for the bishop and knight and one for the castle (rook) and the pawns. The image is to show how they can look when cast and painted. The chess board is not included. |
