Veteran Napoleonic officers posing in their elaborate uniforms in extraordinary remastered [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 27, 2017 | Gareth Davies

[chesley]

That sounds interesting. What does it stand for, please??

[Uncle Sam 911]

Imagine trying to fight in those uniforms. Amazing.

[IronJack]

At one point, Napoleon’s armies had conquered most of Europe. He was to 19th-century France what Alexander was to Macedonia and Caesar was to Rome. And he did it after the hideous Revolution had all but destroyed French society. So it follows that the French would hail him as a savior.

The rest of Europe? Not so much.

And it should be borne in mind that Napoleon wasn’t even French.

[Leaning Right]

And it should be borne in mind that Napoleon wasn’t even French.

Right. It is also interesting to note that Hitler wasn't German, Stalin wasn't Russian, and Obama wasn't...(well, you know).

[IronJack]

Human?

[MrEdd]

This Thread Is Useless With Out Pictures.

[C19fan]

I think the only reason soldiers wore those bearskin hats was to look taller.

[VanDeKoik]

You dont even want to believe that’s real!

Each of these guys could have conceivably shook hands with Thomas Jefferson or James Monroe, while actually wearing those uniforms.

[VanDeKoik]

I’ve never understood the whole comparing Napoleon to Hitler meme that I heard as a kid, or the cliche you see in old Warner Brothers cartoons of Napoleon being a dwarf wearing a crazy hat and acting like a mental case.

[rlmorel]

I don’t know about you, but I get an almost physical sensation of the weight of history just looking at those images...

[Covenantor]

First time I really studied that map/graph I was astonished at the amount of information that was clearly presented.

[rlmorel]

History of that particular era was never my strong suit, and when I saw that graph for the first time, it struck me like a lightning bolt of how many dead, frozen, forgotten bodies must have been left on the side of those snowy roads that were probably stained with blood.

[Pearls Before Swine]

A mighty river of an army left Paris; only a trickle returned.

[FreedomPoster]

My wife got a flyer in the mail for an upcoming Tufte seminar here. I’ve been a fan for a while, I’m thinking about attending. I like his art, too, and I generally don’t like modern sculpture.

[daltec]

It's a little hard to see, so I circled in red what is, for me, one of the more poignant aspects of a very poignant graph: the crossing of the Berezina.

As you know, the width of the line represents the number of soldiers. What was left of the Grande Armee was bolstered by the return of some forces that had boogied off before the main force entered Russia. You can see how the black line increases in thickness when this happens.

But then the black line intersects a little squiggly line: the Berezina River. By the time the army had crossed the river, it had lost more than half of the little that remained. When you read what happened there, well, it really does help further drive home what this graph truly represents. To think of all those poor men desperate to get across that half-frozen river... here, let the eyewitnesses tell it:

"The left bank of the Berezina became the scene of the most painful sight: men, women, children were shrieking in despair; several tried to rush across the burning bridges or threw themselves into the river in which large blocks of ice were drifting. Others ventured on the ice between the two bridges, but it gave in and engulfed them. At last, at about nine o’clock, the Cossacks arrived and captured the multitude, victim of it’s blindness.

The Cossacks flung themselves on these people who had been left behind. They pillaged everything on the opposite bank, where there was a huge quantity of vehicles laden with immense riches. Those who were not massacred in this first charge were taken prisoner and whatever they possessed fell to the Cossacks."

https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Disaster-at-the-River-Napoleon-Leaves-Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berezina

[chesley]

LOL! Thanks. but who would want pictures of Amy Farrah Fowler? Penny, now.

[Kommodor]

Yikes!

[crazy scenario]

These French uniforms look like they're for doormen at the Ritz

Wehrmacht uniforms of WWII are the best....except those poofie berets the Panzer corps wore early on.

[Daffynition]

PS: I love Kellyanne, Just couldn't help myself .... she looked so cute in her brigadeers. :)