#Napoleon at Waterloo

[oldschoolfrp]

Adventure Gaming, aka Three Games Designed to Introduce You to Adventure Gaming, in magazine format with Tim Truman cover art, sold by SPI for $1.00 in 1981, with two map sheets and a small sheet of die cut cardstock counters -- including The Creatures that Ate New York (adapted from The Creature that Ate Sheboygan), Napoleon at Waterloo (a Jim Dunnigan wargame that SPI had been giving away separately with Strategy & Tactics subscriptions), and The Tower of Azann (a programmed solo or co-op fantasy RPG adventure with two pages of fine print numbered paragraphs), plus a little article by Redmond Simonsen on “Solitaire Play” for board games

#Adventure Gaming #Tim Truman #Timothy Truman #SPI #wargame #board game #Jim Dunnigan #Redmond Simonsen #The Creatures that Ate New York #The Creature that Ate Sheboygan #kaiju #programmed adventure #solo gaming #solo adventure #RPG #Napoleon at Waterloo #Napoleon #fantasy RPG #1980s #Three Games Designed to Introduce You to Adventure Gaming

[disabled-sapphic]

Cannot stop thinking about how Shakira knew she was being cheated on because her husband's affair partner was eating all her strawberry jam, like was the affair partner Paddington Bear's evil cousin Elizabeth Line Bear

#or Victoria Bear #Circle Line Bear #Elephant and Castle Bear #Waterloo Bear #my my at waterloo napoleon did surrender #oh yes but that bear ate the jam in quite a simmilar way #shakira #Paddington bear

[thatsbelievable]

#What to do if Napoleon Won’t Stop Pointing #tips #tricks #life hacks #helpful hints #advice #Napoleon #France #Elba #Ziggy Piggy #waterloo water park #anyway don’t point #it’s rude

[illustratus]

The Battle of Ligny by Ernest Crofts

#battle of ligny #art #ernest crofts #napoleonic wars #waterloo campaign #hundred days #napoleon bonaparte #napoléon bonaparte #france #french #netherlands #belgium #battlefield #windmill #windmills #history #europe #european #napoleonic #napoléon #napoleon #troops #soldiers #bonaparte

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

I had to make this

#i have too much free time #nappy wlw king (emperor)😍😍😍 #blud did NOT die in exile to get this treatment after 200 years 😭🗣🔥 #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #history #napoleonic era #napoleonic wars #napoleon fandom #battle of waterloo #napoleonic memes #napoleon pookie

[whosthatknocking]

Waterloo (1970), dir. Sergei Bondarchuk

#waterloo #rod steiger #period drama #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #napoleón bonaparte #napoleonic era #napoleonic wars #sergei bondarchuk

[linghxr]

This week I learned that Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo is the source of the Chinese expression 滑铁卢 | 滑鐵盧 huátiělú. It’s a transliteration of Waterloo, but it can refer more generally to a defeat or failure.

Ex: 他这次考试又惨遭滑铁卢。 On this test he suffered a Waterloo again. (AKA he failed miserably.)

Via Baidu Baike: 是出自滑铁卢战役，在这场战役中，反法联军获得了决定性胜利，拿破仑失败了，所以滑铁卢代表失败。 Comes from the Battle of Waterloo. In this battle, the anti-French allied forces won a decisive victory, and Napoleon was defeated, so huátiělú represents failure/defeat.

#pleco #滑铁卢 #滑鐵盧 #napoleon #waterloo #battle of waterloo #never thought I would use those tags on this blog lol #mandarin chinese #chinese #mandarin

[gayforkimveer]

i think about that statue in Glasgow an alarming amount

#duke of wellington #arthur wellesley #napoleonic era #napoleonic wars #napoleonic shitpost #battle of waterloo #fanart

[deadpresidents]

American Bonaparte: Napoléon's Great-Nephew in the President's Cabinet

In June 1815, Napoléon Bonaparte’s bid for continued military glory in Europe was crushed by allied British and Prussian troops at the Battle of Waterloo. Following his surrender, the former Emperor of France had hoped that the British might allow him to live the remainder of his life in exile in the United States. However, Napoléon had already escaped exile once before (from the Mediterranean island of Elba) and once again rallied the French around him in a last-ditch effort to conquer the European continent prior to Waterloo. Unwilling to risk another vanishing act, the British instead banished Napoléon to one of the most isolated places in the world – the remote island of Saint Helena, in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, between Africa and South Africa – for the rest of his life.

Some of the Bonaparte family did eventually reach the United States, however. In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851-1921), the American-born grandson of Napoléon’s youngest brother, Jérôme, as the U.S. Secretary of the Navy. A year later, Roosevelt shifted Bonaparte from the Department of the Navy to the Justice Department. For the rest of Theodore Roosevelt’s Presidency, the great-nephew of the man responsible for the Napoléonic code was the United States Attorney General – America’s top law enforcement official – where he helped establish the Bureau of Investigation, better known today as the FBI.

#History #Napoleon #Napoleon Bonaparte #Battle of Waterloo #Waterloo #France #U.S. Government #Jérôme Bonaparte #Charles Joseph Bonaparte #Theodore Roosevelt #TR #President Roosevelt #Roosevelt Administration #Cabinet #Presidential Cabinets #Cabinet of Theodore Roosevelt #U.S. Attorney General #U.S. Secretary of the Navy #Attorney General #Bonaparte #Bonaparte Family #Executive Branch #Cabinet Secretaries #French History #FBI #FBI History #Federal Bureau of Investigation #DOJ #Department of Justice #Justice Department

[mapsontheweb]

Battle of Waterloo, 1815.

by LegendesCarto

#maps #LegendesCarto #twsourced #battle of waterloo #1815 #napoleon

[spockvarietyhour]

See you sea cowboy

#Sharpe #Sharpe's Waterloo #Napoleon Bonaparte #Danny watches Sharpe #Hide and Queue

[ciderbird]

F in the chat guys…

#waterloo (one day) - borodino was also one day dipshit but you didn’t care about it did you? #napoleon 2023 #when he comically tipped over and dropped dead I laughed

[empirearchives]

“So that whether we regard Napoleon as a hero rushing to the country’s help, or a tyrant profiting by the country’s extremity, it is equally clear that those who made the war made the war-lord.”

— G. K. Chesterton, The Crimes of England: The Enigma of Waterloo

#G. K. Chesterton #the crimes of England #The Enigma of Waterloo #Chesterton #napoleon #napoleonic era #napoleonic #napoleon bonaparte #first french empire #french empire #quotes #french revolution #history #french history

[illustratus]

At Waterloo by Ernest Crofts

#ernest crofts #art #waterloo #napoleonic wars #battle of waterloo #napoleonic #lancers #cavalry #france #french #belgium #netherlands #britain #history #europe #european #landscape

[credo--ergo-sum]

Happy that its finished now with all the little details

#artwork #illustration #art #napoleonic era #napoleonic wars #aquarelle #napoleon bonaparte #arthur wellesley #duke of wellington #napoleon #waterloo #aquarel painting #myart #historical art

[blackswaneuroparedux]

He might not be a born officer, but by God he was a born soldier. He was the son of a whore, bereft of God, but a God-damned soldier.

Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Rifles

What better way to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo than to watch a couple of episodes of Sharpe television series with Sean Bean in the titular title role of the gritty swashbucking Richard Sharpe of the 95th Rifles with your downstairs neighbour, a retired French army general and Napoleonic warfare history buff.

#cornwell #bernard cornwell #quote #richard sharpe #literature #novels #tv series #napoleonic warfare #waterloo #peninisular war #95th Rifles #army officer #hero #british army #sean bean