Napoleonica

[stuka f]

Found this picture on the net regarding a rather special grave of a former high rank officer of the Imperial army.
Tought some of you might like to see it too.

 

[Khukri]

Found this picture on the net regarding a rather special grave of a former high rank officer of the Imperial army.
Tought some of you might like to see it too.

Restoration about 2020

 

[KAGGR#1]

Found this picture on the net regarding a rather special grave of a former high rank officer of the Imperial army.
Tought some of you might like to see it too.

I have never seen anything like it
Very nice
Steve

 

[stuka f]

I didn't took the link to the original pic, when loading it...
But Francis looked it up;

 

[Khukri]

In France Châlons-en-Champagne.
That is about 48 km SE of Reims.
Grave monument of Colonel Pierre Nicolas Martelet (1765-1846).
-He was Adjudant, Commander and Chief-of-Staff of the 35th Division of the IInd Corps of the Grande Armée.
-The monument shows the Battles this Officer fought in. Revolutionary and Napoleonic.
-Discription: it has bicorn; epaulettes; sword and Croix de la légion d'honeur on top of the monument. And has a skull and an owl in it.

 

[b.loree]

Amazing and totally unique!

 

[stuka f]

Here is a picture of a genuine Napoleonic (retired!) soldier in is original uniform.
Picture was taken in the fifties...."eighteen fifties" that is!!

 

[John Josef]

Here is a picture of a genuine Napoleonic (retired!) soldier in is original uniform.
Picture was taken in the fifties...."eighteen fifties" that is!!

That's a great picture there was a whole series of these photos of veterans taken

 

[GardeUlan]

That's a great picture there was a whole series of these photos of veterans taken

Yes, That‘s right!

Here they are:

The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection: Photographs of Napoleon’s Veterans : Brown University Library Brown University Library

By the way, today‘s 18th of June!

Best wishes,

GardeUlan

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm II]

On the topic of Napoleonic veterans, here is something that some here may enjoy in regards to photos.

 

[2nd.Leibhusar]

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Fanstatic hilarious !!!

 

[stuka f]

This is quiet special too!

 

[stuka f]

Just got my self a bunch of documents to a captain who started his career under Napoleon and made it to his retirement.
He got wounded several times and fought in various campaigns.
Quiet intresting to read, imagining what and how it must have been...."boys will be boys"....;-)

 

[stuka f]

Just got this, Imperial guard cavalry officer's sabretache ornament.

 

[Steve Nick]

I remember when I was just starting out on the collecting journey in the 1970's the show I liked the most was the Lower Canada Arms Collectors shows held at the armouries of the Royal Montreal Regiment.

Ben Weider (the Fitness/Bodybuilding guru) lived in Montreal. He was obsessed with anything Napoleon related and often had parts of his Napoleonic collection on display. I believe he owned the largest private collection of Napoleonic items in the world. He had Napoleons death mask, all sorts of his correspondence, despatches from Marshall Soult,, Prince Jerome's sword which he broke over the barrel of a cannon in frustration at Waterloo, etc, etc,

I suppose it was broken up after his death. The collection made quite an impression on a history fixated high school kid at the time.