I do not mean the song by Abba, and not even the one by the Kinks! Certain battles are pivotal and determine the course of history. Waterloo in Belgium was one of them; Napoleon's Hundred Days ended, and with them the First Empire.
There might have been an ancestor of mine there. Pierre-Fortune Turfa was in Napoleon's 4th Regiment of Dragoons. The unit was at Ligny 17 June 1815 fighting the Prussians. Pierre-Fortune rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (so I was not the first in the family to do so!) While I have no proo
f that he was actually at Waterloo, from what I see his apparently survived the wars and might well have been present. If he was, then he likely was fighting against some of the other part of my genetic pool in the Prussian and other armies!
http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/c_dragoons1.html#4
Of the many songs about the battle, I post Ship of Fools' (with John Renbourn) "Plains of Waterloo".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Z0nVduT4s
Apparently Napoleon left in a hurry. The Prussians obtained his hat.
http://www.holidaycheck.de/vollbild-Deutsches+Historisches+Museum+Hut+Napoleons+Deutsches+Historisches+Museum-ch_ub-id_1161444693.html
There might have been an ancestor of mine there. Pierre-Fortune Turfa was in Napoleon's 4th Regiment of Dragoons. The unit was at Ligny 17 June 1815 fighting the Prussians. Pierre-Fortune rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (so I was not the first in the family to do so!) While I have no proo
http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/c_dragoons1.html#4
Of the many songs about the battle, I post Ship of Fools' (with John Renbourn) "Plains of Waterloo".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Z0nVduT4s
Apparently Napoleon left in a hurry. The Prussians obtained his hat.
http://www.holidaycheck.de/vollbild-Deutsches+Historisches+Museum+Hut+Napoleons+Deutsches+Historisches+Museum-ch_ub-id_1161444693.html
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