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Started by JonasSalk, March 14, 2012, 10:39:42 AM

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JonasSalk

March 14, 2012, 10:39:42 AM
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/05/photographs-of-napoleons-veterans/

Quote'Photographs of veterans of Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Guard wearing their original uniforms and insignia.  Likely date May 5, 1858 – all are wearing the Saint Helene medal, issued on August 12, 1857 to all veterans of the wars of the Revolution and the Empire. May 5 – the anniversary of the death of Napoleon. Every year on that date veterans gathered in Paris:

''The base and railings of the column of the Place Vendôme appear this day decked out with the annual offerings to the memory of the man whose statue adorns the summit. The display of garlands of immortelles, and other tributes of the kind, is greater than usual... the old soldiers of the Empire performed their usual homage yesterday at the same place.'

Times - May, 1855'

- Brown University Library



Yuman

Martim Silva

#1
March 14, 2012, 11:12:50 AM
Those are also the oldest soldiers in uniform ever taken on photo.

I remain fascinated everytime I look at them, though. Those men would be over 200 years old today. I wonder what they could tell us... especially the Mamluke.

Malthus

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March 14, 2012, 01:26:07 PM
Quote from: Martim Silva on March 14, 2012, 11:12:50 AM
Those are also the oldest soldiers in uniform ever taken on photo.

I remain fascinated everytime I look at them, though. Those men would be over 200 years old today. I wonder what they could tell us... especially the Mamluke.

I also wonder what they would say if they were alive today.

Probably something along the lines of "let me out of this box! I can't breathe! Help!".  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Barrister

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March 14, 2012, 01:43:51 PM
:frusty:
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Malthus

#5
March 14, 2012, 01:51:24 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 14, 2012, 01:43:51 PM
:frusty:

... and that's what they'd be *doing*.  :lol:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Malthus

#6
March 14, 2012, 01:52:18 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on March 14, 2012, 01:45:58 PM
They were short.

To you, everyone is short.  :P
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Barrister

#7
March 14, 2012, 02:00:16 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 14, 2012, 01:51:24 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 14, 2012, 01:43:51 PM
:frusty:

... and that's what they'd be *doing*.  :lol:

Your jokes are as old as these soldiers.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Malthus

#8
March 14, 2012, 02:06:52 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 14, 2012, 02:00:16 PM
Quote from: Malthus on March 14, 2012, 01:51:24 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 14, 2012, 01:43:51 PM
:frusty:

... and that's what they'd be *doing*.  :lol:

Your jokes are as old as these soldiers.

Napoleonic-era smilies?   :P
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Admiral Yi

#9
March 14, 2012, 02:52:53 PM
Great posture for their age.

Valmy

#10
March 14, 2012, 03:08:18 PM
If only today's war veterans could fit into their uniforms 50 years on.
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March 14, 2012, 03:14:19 PM


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JonasSalk

#12
March 14, 2012, 04:10:17 PM
Quote from: Valmy on March 14, 2012, 03:08:18 PM
If only today's war veterans could fit into their uniforms 50 years on.

I see a great many who can. Unless you mean the Afghan/Iraq vets. Those will likely be mega fat in 50 years.
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