Napoleonic Lovers (1 Viewer)

[wellington]

HAVE A LOOK AT THIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfsuIaTU92Y&mode=related&search=


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLh8Rf9DX2I&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UTZXrsNYhI&mode=related&search=



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[Rob]

Thanks Wellington.That demonstration of Cannon firepower was awsome.What it must have been like at battles like Trafalgar is beyond belief,and at very close range too.

Rob

 

[wellington]

No problem...I love the navy during this time period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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[Rob]

Yes its fascinating,i understand Osprey have a new book on the Navy in this period coming out soon.I must have visited HMS Victory half a dozen times since i was i kid and always enoyed it.Never ceases to amaze me how people lived worked and died on a ship like that.And when you stand on her and try and imagine what it was like being press ganged into service and perhaps never seeing home again,sends a shiver down your spine.I stand there look up at the rigging and think there is no way i could climb that here in dry dock,let alone while she was rolling about on a rough sea.They were made of tough stuff in those days weren't they?.Maggots in your food and as Churchill put it ' Rum,Sodomy and the Lash'. No thanks,i'm a land lubber through and through!!!

Rob

 

[wellington]

You have been on HMS VICTORY.....you are very lucky, maybe one day I could have the previllage to do the same.



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[kilted vampire]

Yikes! I read a lt of O'Brien books. It is one thing to read about the slivers and another thing to see them flying through the air!

 

[Rob]

Yes the wounds must have been horrendous,and with primitive medical treatment it must have been horrific.

Rob

 

[kilted vampire]

How are you feeling, Rob?

BTW The links are great! Thanks for posting them.

 

[Rob]

Hey KV,its slowly improving thanks mate.Each day a little better and now its a race to be fit for Saturday.All joking aside i do hope to be able to make it,i love the London shows and and with only three a year i don't want to miss one.Hows you today,pain free?

Rob

 

[kilted vampire]

Glad to hear you ae on the mend Rob. I realised why I had been painfree. No drywall work. I did some yesterday and last night was not good. Took some Aleeve and felt a lot better afterwards. Maybe some day I will get to the London show.

 

[Rob]

Glad to hear you ae on the mend Rob. I realised why I had been painfree. No drywall work. I did some yesterday and last night was not good. Took some Aleeve and felt a lot better afterwards. Maybe some day I will get to the London show.

Thanks KV,Would be great to meet you if you do make it to London.Hope your pain has gone now,easy on the drywall!

Rob

 

[Combat]

Some interesting new figures from our russian friends:

 

[Combat]

Couple more:

 

[Capitolron]

Wellington

Great stuff - I too love the Naval action !

 

[Capitolron]

Some interesting new figures from our russian friends:

Combat

Those Russians make some great figures ! Love them

 

[wellington]

Thanks Capitolron....The ships of that era remind me of works of art...each with their own personality...and a crew to help out along the way.....



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[wellington]

HERES ONE FOR YA.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au08Z3NRi74&mode=related&search=



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[Capitolron]

Wellington

I love it !

Unfortunately - All of Napoleon's French Fleet is an underwater National Park - thanks to his Lordship Nelson !!

 

[kilted vampire]

Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like to serve in one of those ships of the line. But in peace time

 

[wellington]

Here is a couple more interresting ones


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6KiXl9TXNw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufD1bcNbNbU



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