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On the 18th of June
1815 the last battle of Napoleon was fought at a small place called Waterloo
nearby Brussels, Belgium. French troops where already several days in small
fighting's with the Allied forces under command of The Duke of Wellington
for the British, Blucher for the Prussians forces.
I don't know how I
became fascinated by this specific battle, it must have been about
1970... With one of my brothers, Frans who is a year younger, I
started painting Airfix 1:72 soldiers. After a while we had painted more
than a thousand soldiers and our first Waterloo was a fact.
I believe that it wasafter 2 or 3 years we started quarreling about the uniforms and whether
some troops had been there on that time or not. Our lack of knowledge
was the reason that we stopped painting and our Waterloo project stopped.
It was very nice to
find out that there are nowadays so many more Waterloo figures than in the
70's.
René Betgem
Holland
p.s. also visit my
shop.....
Build your own battle of Waterloo, You can by my soldiers
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