Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

A Lieutenant-Colonel and a 1st Lieutenant, both dressed in uniforms of the King´s German Legion, entered the Rhine Tavern. The Lieutenant-Colonel stepped right to the bar. He took an empty glass out of the hand of a major, who just wants to put it on the bar to have it filled again. While the major looked surprised, the elder officer bumped it on the bar several times. The officers around noticed and stopped talking.

„Gentlemen...“, the Lieutenant-Colonel shouted, „Gentlemen, please let me announce the promotion of James Whitehead to 1st Lieutenant. This brave man fought well and now he is honored by this promotion.We are glad to have a man like him in our lines. Here at my side you see this brave man standing. And here in my hand you see a glass of beer – an empty glass of beer. Helga, please fill it up again. Gentlemen, get your glasses filled and lets have a toast on this honorable man, 1st Lieutenant James Whitehead.“

Congratulations, James!

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A King's Dragoon Guardsmen rises from his accustomed seat, and raises his fine, crystal shot glass high into the air.

"Never let it be said that a toast was denied to my fine, Hanoverian brothers! To your good health and continued prosperity, Lieutenant Whitehead, and to all the Golden Eagles of France", he said as he tipped the glass and downed its infernal contents in one smoothly practiced gulp. The French officers in the tavern sat silently in shock at their implacable adversary's words, never expecting such praise from the Commanding Officer of the Hanoverian Brigade.

The Hanoverian officers began to grin, well knowing that the Jagermeister their Commander had imbibed only inflicted a very temporary paralysis on one's vocal chords.

"May they ever adorn the trophy rooms of the mighty and irrepressible Anglo-Allied Army", said the King's Dragoon Guardsman as the tavern broke out in cheers from its Coalition occupants.

congratulations sir

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Congratulations James,

Regards,

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General de Brigada Jose Angel "Trane" Barredo.
Comandante de la Brigada Española.

Congratulations Lieutenant Whitehead.

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Colonel John Sheffield
9ème Régiment de Hussards
Brigade de Cavalerie Légère(Trelliard),
Réserve de Cavalerie,
La Grande Armée.