Sorry Dave!!! yes I would have liked a bit about the "area today" As an asides I think a Bavarian officer vistit the site around 1824 and the ground was littered with items!!! Steve not see that one, but for good illustrations the Lachouque Carminigian (Spelling!!!) French series of campaign books are excellent.

O.K. Keep an eye out for it - if you type in the title and artist on cranston fine arts site a pic should come up.

Hello.
Just to let you know I've just finished "Waterloo the French perspective" and found it good.
The most interesting aspect was the authors acceptance that the attack of the middle guard was carried out in square not column (and that initially allied units opposed to it were thrown back by the fire from these squares) and that the formation used by D erlons infantry was justified and initially successful and only routed due to the cavalry support not being close enough to intervene against the union brigades attack.

You may be interested to know that Naval And Military press have reproduced some excellent books on the period a lot of them are hard to get in original editions, there are a couple on the 1806 campaign in particular. I am reading Fanes campaigns in Northern Europe 1813 to 1814 he was with the allied armies. And was present at several of the battles of these campaigns.

Does anyone one have or seen R Johnson's 'Napoleonic Armies' and is it any good? I had heard it was unreleiable in places and does it cover the Spanish Armies of the period?