Click on the link below to see photos from the reenactment of the Battle and of Kyle and Brian playing softball.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=121a73ha.6y2mfpqq&x=0&y=9ai6rz
Some more professional photos of the Battle (with more accurate captions too) are in the links here and here.
In case you wanted a history of the Battle (care of BBC):
The Battle of Waterloo, fought near Brussels, marked the end of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon, exiled on Elba since April 1814, returned to France and reassumed power in March 1815. The Allies opposing him prepared to invade France. Napoleon marched into Belgium against Wellington's combined army of British, Dutch, Belgian and German forces and Marshal Blücher's Prussian army. The French defeated Blücher at Ligny. Wellington withdrew his force of 67,000 from Quatre-Bras to Waterloo. Napoleon attacked Wellington's position with 72,000 troops, putting in three assaults between late morning and late afternoon. The delay allowed the Prussians time to reach the battlefield where they eventually deployed 44,000 troops. Towards sunset a last French attack failed. The French retreated pursued by the Prussians. They left 25,000 dead and wounded and lost 9,000 as prisoners. Wellington lost 15,000 men and Blücher 8,000.
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Thanks for the pictures of the Waterloo Battle. I especially appreciated learning the history (again). I'm sure I knew it long ago. I guess the Union and Confederate reinactors were not the first afterall.
Had a Happy Father's Day with Church at Haygood and lunch at the Jr. Varsity! How bout them rings!
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