A few weeks ago I took my kids for a drive out to Benalla in country Victoria to visit a few Ned Kelly memorial sites (Ned is a very famous Australian folk hero).
To my surprise, at the Benalla and District Historical Society, I discovered this display. It is, apparently, one of the drums used by the Dutch forces at Waterloo and was handed down to a local family.
Hello all
Was reading another website about the Swedish spoils of war over time and found a interesting fact about a Bonaparte item.
“The last trophy ever prized by the Swedes was a red portfolio belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte. The portfolio was used by Napoleon for keeping newspapers and documents. The Swedes found it after the battle of Leipzig in 1813.”
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Listeners to this podcast might be interested in a BBC Radio documentary I found on their archive site – looking at the ambivalent attitude history has had towards Napoleon, and how even the British have in many cases nursed a cult of Boney in opposition to the more traditional opprobium heaped on his head. It can be heard here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/trafalgar/boneys_revenge.shtml
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Andrew (UK)
Hey cam or david, any news on when the next installment of Napoleon Podcast will be coming?