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'French infantry at Waterloo' - caption for an image
23.7.2025 (Wednesday) 14:44 - All running AOK
 
Re: 'French infantry at Waterloo' - caption for an image
Posted by TonyK at 16:04, 22nd July 2025
 
C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la gare.

(Apologies to Pierre Bosquet)


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Re: 'French infantry at Waterloo' - caption for an image
Posted by infoman at 05:54, 22nd July 2025
 
The film Waterloo must be the only blockbuster film that I know,

 that does not come with sub-titles,

even if shown on terrestrial TV.

Please correct me if you have a DVD copy of the film that does have sub-titles.

Surprised considering it was an early 1970's film

Re: 'French infantry at Waterloo' - caption for an image
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 00:13, 22nd July 2025
 
Apparently, though, the actual location of that image was on the Madrid Metro.

Never trust anything you read on the internet. 


'French infantry at Waterloo' - caption for an image
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 23:54, 21st July 2025
 

I’d be very concerned if I was travelling to Waterloo tomorrow.


With my apologies for rather hijacking my colleague Timmer's post ... 

I'm sorry if I'm going off on a bit of a tangent here.

Many years ago, in my twenties, I was involved in historical re-enactment societies (mainly English Civil War) which raised considerable amounts of money for various charities from members of the public paying to watch our efforts.

I have posted the link before, out on the forum. There was a Napoleonic War commemorative re-enactment event in London, some time ago, when this image was posted.



It shows many re-enactors, and it was captioned, 'French infantry at Waterloo'.

Getting the context, personally, I was rofl.


 
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