Salvete Omnes,
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| taking of Smolensk 1812 |
we, the Napoleonic Age aficionados, are still reeling from the 'fracaso' or failure of the latest Hollywood take on the great European aka Napoleon by a British director R. Scott.
So today some images of mounted Napoleon by maestro Albrecht Adam, who himself, when very young, was 'an honorable visual corespondent' during the epic 1812 campaign in Russia.
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| detail from a larger painting |
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| burning Moscow in 1812 |
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| detail from the Berezyna/Berezina crossing |
nota bene gorgeously painted horse
Valete
2 comments:
Nota bene, in January 1812 Napoleon ordered to have his immediate staff equestrian element organized in 10 'units' - 13 horses each. Together 130 horses. Each unit consisted of 2 war horses ( trained for war) for the Emperor, and 1 horse for traveling (easy gaited I presume). So we come to 20 war horses and 10 'gaited horses'trained only for Napoleon.
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