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| Author: | bijl0130 [ Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:38 am ] |
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Gentlemen of the AAA, we are about to increase the OOB of our army because of many new recruits to be placed. Please see the Coalition Arms forum for more info. Rest is secret of course. Bad luck for our French opponents. [:D] greetings, 
-------------------------------------------------------- Luitenant-Generaal Marco Bijl Commander Anglo-Allied army. 2nd Dutch guides (guards). Militaire Willems Orde 3rd Class (MWO) Commandeur Militaire Willems Orde (MWO). |
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| Author: | Bill Peters [ Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:01 am ] |
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Ah, finally forming the Kitchen Corps eh? All that dish washing from Officers Mess eh? Yes, I remember the days in a Allied army. First you had to shoe horses, then wash dishes. So much better here in the French army where they give you a saddle, a sword and steed and you get to get RIGHT into the fighting! Ah, I feel sorry for those new Kitchen Kadets! [:D] Colonel Bill Peters, 17th Dragoons, III Corps, French Army HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt, Austerlitz and ... more to come) Swiss-Swedish Army CinC, Musket and Cannon Game Club - Come over and see what we are all about! 
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| Author: | Michael Ellwood [ Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:27 pm ] |
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Mucking out the stables to start with....Kitchen Kadets the next..... one day they get to march out as ....Kannon Fodder and Trampled rags of a defeated rabble the next! Excellent...bring them on.....pitchforks, harsh mops and nasty scrubbing brushes to the fore! [xx(] [:p] [:p] Col Mike Ellwood Commanding Officer 3rd Dragoon Division Reserve Cavalry |
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| Author: | MCJones1810 [ Fri Jul 02, 2010 5:45 pm ] |
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There may be some truth to the Frenchmen's claims. Colonel Jenssen has had me pulling KP duty for two months now. Says that it is good for the soul. When I asked why he thought my soul needed so much mending, he admitted that he had been ordered to keep me on KP by General Moss. Something about a hermit, whatever that meant. Focus...Become one with the potato, young ensign.... [8)] Well, one thing I do know from experience, the bullet from a British rifle outranges the sharpened sabre of any French cavalryman, no matter how big a horse he is riding. [:)][:D][:D][:D][8D] 
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| Author: | Michael Ellwood [ Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:41 pm ] |
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The musket/rifle in the hands of an untrained, nervouse potato gazer will tremble at the sight and sound of a Glorious French Cavalryman risplendant and flashing brilliance with his magnificant thundering steed plunges towards him .......the realisation of a REAL 'Sharpe' sword descends on his trembling misery...... <i>fumbling with the powder...the rod.....the aim ....the trigger</i>......darkness descends..... and oblivion of perfidious Albion and consciousness arrives [xx(]. Onward into battle you march good Sir [:D] Col Mike Ellwood Commanding Officer 3rd Dragoon Division Reserve Cavalry |
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| Author: | MCJones1810 [ Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:25 am ] |
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So long as one maintains his nerve, a rifle can be reloaded as quickly on the field of battle as off. Mostly just a matter of perspective. You must even yourself admit that many of the trappings of the French Cavalrymen are for show. Better suited to a parade ground than a battlefield. Wild and vivid colors are not life threatening, however fanciful they may be to the ladies. Your account of the charge is very entertaining. Written in the spirit of a truly romantic Frenchman. Please allow me to offer to you another perspective. The Glorious French Cavalryman, resplendent in his dazzling uniform with drawn saber, launches his thundering steed at a lone, Hanoverian Jager who calmly stands reloading his rifle in an open field. Bearing rapidly down upon his foe, the Frenchman draws back his sword to deliver the killing stroke to which he is so often accustomed. After all, the glory of his magnificent charge will surely render the enemy soldier helpless. Most often his foe turns to flee the impending doom, enabling the cavalryman to run him down from behind.[:(!][:(!][:(!][}:)] The Jager raises his rifle and calmly takes aim at the rapidly growing target. For a marksman who can shoot the eye out of a hawk at 100 meters, the approaching cavalryman is impossible to miss. So kind of him to come closer and make my job all the easier, he thinks. The Jager watches over his sights as the Frenchman's visage changes from confidence to doubt, and then to abject fear as the cavalryman realizes that he can no longer halt the plunge of his magnificent, thundering steed and that his sword is, in the end, simply too short.[:0][:0][:0][xx(] Ah, but back to the potatoes. If I don't get all of these peeled, General Moss will have my hide. Must concentrate on the job currently at hand. After all, I wouldn't want to nick my trigger finger.[;)]
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| Author: | clifton seeney [ Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:06 pm ] |
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Nay Mon ami it goes like this “Run out my daughters to give them their last kiss, oh how sweet they look in their red uniforms and their bag pipes trying to inspire them!†|
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| Author: | Michael Ellwood [ Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:29 pm ] |
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Splendid! A potato gazer who has a hint of the very dull dramatic! [:D] My apologies for the delay as I have been in the field chasing fleeing peasant soldiers and catching fainting damsels [8D] As your daydreams of cool professionalism warm your repose let me finnish the tale from the consumate professional warrior's view .....'simply too short [:0][:0][:0][xx(].....so the change in demenor of the foe calls for immediate re-adjustment of the cavalryman's position. Focusing on the stout fellows weapon he guides his mighty steed directly towards him...releases the reins and leans back...the fellow's shot is heard and felt as it wizzzeezz past his fine nose....he tumbles off the rear of his mount .... as it thunders on. A deft flip off the beasts haunches and he hits the ground ...flung forward with the momentum into a forward role..sabre tucked across his doubled up middle...rolls...flips to his feet...forced into a run...and there before him the astonished petit poulet stands...eyes wide...mouth wider....his sword still sheathed and ....impotent.......the boy stares in amazment as this magnificant specimen is rising to full height ...towering over him ...standing stock still inches from his face...smiling....The small tingle in his belly makes him look down....the 'short sword' is very short .....as it has disapeared into ....his belly....the pain arrives...the world spins...darkness closes in...he has a sensation of falling...falling.....[xx(] As the boy slides backwards the French cavalry officer slowly slides the cold hard blade from the body and the boy drops to the ground. ''That my lad is the realilty of a 'Sharpe' end! Never underestimate the prowess of even a short sword when weilded by a determined and skilled dance partner ....as L'Emperor has often said'' [:D] .....''Now where would I find my next mount!'' as he eyes the nearest villiage [;)]. Col Mike Ellwood Commanding Officer 3rd Dragoon Division Reserve Cavalry |
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| Author: | Michael Ellwood [ Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:35 pm ] |
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Gentlemen a round for the good Ensign and a round of appluase for his fine intentions. May we soon furnish him with the opponants he aspires to emulate! Vive L'France! Vive L'Emperor!! Col Mike Ellwood Commanding Officer 3rd Dragoon Division Reserve Cavalry |
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| Author: | MCJones1810 [ Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:35 pm ] |
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My dear Colonel, you have my deepest admiration for your verbal, and physical, dexterity! I will share that proffered round with you, good sir and offer a toast that you always land on your feet. Somehow, I believe you just might. I look forward to the promised opposition and will even offer a further toast to your beloved Emperor. May Bonaparte's rule be truly gloroius...however misguided and short though it is destined to be. Fare well good Colonel. May you survive all of your battles and return again safely home once this wretched conflict is ended. Gott außer dem Vaterland! God save the King!
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| Author: | Michael Ellwood [ Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:28 am ] |
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Salute Sir, And I raise a toast to yourself and your King in return. May the fields of battle be contested with worthy and honourable men who strive for honour and glory....and not afraid to sit and share a drink with the enemy between such contests [:D]...and another round here Helga!! Col Mike Ellwood Commanding Officer 3rd Dragoon Division Reserve Cavalry |
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| Author: | clifton seeney [ Thu Jul 08, 2010 12:48 pm ] |
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Woe to any man on foot or horseback once the daughters are let lose on the field of Glory! The ball and chain is the best way to stop a would be Knight. No nobleman can stand once the thunder is release! Who dears to compare to what the Emperor said a Mounted Artilleryman had to be, send me the unrestraint, rebel the Machiavellians of the armee! Col Kliff Marbot 3/3 e Artillerie de Cheval 2nd Div I Corps LaGrande Armee |
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