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Text Box: When it (the shell) burst about seventeen men were either killed or wounded by it. My share was a piece of rough cast iron …… which took up its lodging in my left cheek. The blood ran copiously down my clothes and made me feel rather uncomfortable. Sgt. Morris (73rd Foot)

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In accordance with the provisions of the Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992 (EEC Directive 90/314), all moneys paid to Waterloo Battlefield Tours Ltd., either as deposit or final settlement, will be held in a separate trust account (HSBC Bank Plc, Portsmouth, Hampshire a/c No. 41390600) and as such cannot be released to Waterloo Battlefield Tours Ltd. until the specified tour has taken place.  This facility guarantees a full refund of all moneys paid in the most unlikely event of WBT failing to provide the tour booked.

 

Our U.K. registered company number is 4203738
Text Box: Drummer Lecointre and Colonel Sourd Many stories of extraordinary bravery are told of the men who fought at Waterloo, but it would be difficult to beat these two. Drummer Lecointre served with the French 45th Regiment of the Line who formed part of D’Erlon’s Corps involved in the mass attack on Wellington’s line in early afternoon. As the French approached they came under close range fire from Wellington’s artillery. Here is how one of Lecointre’s comrades, Private Louis Canler, describes what happened next. “At the second discharge of the English guns, the grenadiers’ drummer, Lecointre, lost his right arm…..but the courageous man continued to march at our head beating the charge with his left hand until loss of blood caused him to lose consciousness. In 1828 I saw him again at Paris, where he had entered Les Invalides military hospital.” Colonel Sourd, commanding officer of the 2nd Lancers, was a veteran of the ill fated Russian campaign of 1812. In the cavalry skirmish in Genappe on the day before Waterloo he was severely wounded. Napoleon’s famous surgeon, Larrey, amputated Sourd’s lacerated right arm by the roadside, giving him nothing more than a slug of brandy and a musket ball to bite on. Ney recommended that he be promoted to General, but Sourd begged to be allowed to continue as a Colonel as he didn’t want to be separated from his beloved regiment. On the following day at Waterloo, surely in the most excruciating pain, he led his regiment throughout the day and rode in the ill fated cavalry charges. He survived the battle, lived to be a general after all and died in 1849, aged 70.

Our tours are of three days’ duration and take place over a long weekend from

Saturday to Monday inclusive

 

We are offering the following dates for 2008

 

June

Saturday  7th to Monday 9th

 

July

Saturday 12th to Monday 14th

 

September

Saturday 27th to Monday 29th

 

£450 per person based on two people

sharing a twin or double room

Single room supplement £40

 

 

 

 

Please note our price includes transport and travel from and to the U.K. pick up point, hotel accommodation, all meals,museum entry fees and information pack. Alcohol and travel insurance are not included, but there are……

 

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