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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 9468924, member: 20148&quot;]Today is the 208th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, a sad but epic event that has captivated me since childhood. So my evening viewing tonight will be the epic film with Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer as the opposing commanders on that fateful day. </p><p>Having visited the site on numerous occasions and studied the battle for decades, I have been lucky enough to acquire a couple of artifacts from the site........</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]442540[/ATTACH] </p><p>The musket ball came from Hougoumont farm, and is a British Brown Bess ball. The grapeshot round came from Plancenoit, slightly behind the French line, which was the scene of extremely bitter fighting that day.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]442541[/ATTACH] </p><p>A French musket ball from Le Haye Sainte (right), and another probably French ball, that has unfortunately hit something, or someone!</p><p>I have several bayonets that <i>might</i> have been there, but no proof.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, the question is, does anybody here have anything related either to the battle itself, or to the period or the protagonists please? All is of interest! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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