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PA710 - THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
- DUKE OF WELLINGTON 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 Napoleons
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. |
