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OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD
Text by 'CHARLES GRANT
Colour plates by MICHAEL ROFFE
MEN-AT-ARMS SERIES
EDITOR: PHILIP WARNER
OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD
Text by CHARLES GRANT
Colour plates by MICHAEL ROFFE.
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the stream towards the farm of Rossomme, but
here there was a change in the speed ofthe torrent,
as though a rapidly flowing river had met and
been obliged to swerve round a boulder in its
course. On either side of the high road stood a
grim square of tall and weatherbeaten men in
bulky blue coats and high, red-plumed, black
bearskin s. They had a massive and formid•
able look about them and they stood in their ranks
presenting a glittering and promising line
of s. They were contemptuous of the
fighting, shouting masses as they swirled past,
wild-cycd and panic-stricken.
These men - the ilite of the ilite - were the two
battalions of the First Regiment of Foot Grena•
diers of the Impcrial Guard. Thcy were all
At about . on 18 June 1815, after more
than eight hours of fighting, the French Army
was in flight from thc battlcfield of Waterloo.
Thousands of French troops o