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Dear Toot Well I believe I had already written about the battle at Abu Klee however its spelt & the getting onto an unformed square . Plus the poem of School teacher Newbold which is mostly about Public School & Cricket which might be pure fancy on his part or Poetic liscense you might say .
This is top of my head stuff I havn't reserched it . As for Squares I doubt we had any patent on them and my feeling is all similar nations used the square when required . Napolion favoured huge columns probably because he started with masses of untrained troops but it was inherently unsound since only the front & sides could give fire while being a great target for cannon while British lines could all give fire on any attack . But deploy into a square if attacted by shock troop cavalry . for reasons I've explained . I think it was Wellington who said "They came at us in the same old way & we must stop them in the same old way " Or close . I was at 1995 re-enacted Waterloo on the fields of the original battle but I don't claim to be an expert on that war .
Just a grunt in what turned out to be' a regiment of three' . A Poo bar Colonel from New Orleans, a Piper who was in the modern Gordon's & Me plain old O..R. I marched back from the meeting in the Village of Waterloo singing "Its a long way to Tiparrary ' & " Inky pinky parlay voo' ' Ect and not snagging my B net on shop signs . Camped on a football field with some KGL & two companies of 95th & three Swiss De Muirons. I donned my togs the tuesday & slept in them till the Monday shared a tent .at least .Some East Germans slept in the open mud .! More dedicated to authenticity that me . .However I digress .
Cheers Rudyard
This is top of my head stuff I havn't reserched it . As for Squares I doubt we had any patent on them and my feeling is all similar nations used the square when required . Napolion favoured huge columns probably because he started with masses of untrained troops but it was inherently unsound since only the front & sides could give fire while being a great target for cannon while British lines could all give fire on any attack . But deploy into a square if attacted by shock troop cavalry . for reasons I've explained . I think it was Wellington who said "They came at us in the same old way & we must stop them in the same old way " Or close . I was at 1995 re-enacted Waterloo on the fields of the original battle but I don't claim to be an expert on that war .
Just a grunt in what turned out to be' a regiment of three' . A Poo bar Colonel from New Orleans, a Piper who was in the modern Gordon's & Me plain old O..R. I marched back from the meeting in the Village of Waterloo singing "Its a long way to Tiparrary ' & " Inky pinky parlay voo' ' Ect and not snagging my B net on shop signs . Camped on a football field with some KGL & two companies of 95th & three Swiss De Muirons. I donned my togs the tuesday & slept in them till the Monday shared a tent .at least .Some East Germans slept in the open mud .! More dedicated to authenticity that me . .However I digress .
Cheers Rudyard
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