Renowned military artist Mark Churms
range of Napoleonic paintings and prints of the battle of Waterloo,
published by Cranston Fine Arts, the military print company. Part of the
Mark Churms military print series.
La Charge (Donops Cavalry at Waterloo) by Mark Churms.
Baron de Donops Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, 5.30pm, 18th June 1815. After four hours of fighting, the squadrons of Napoleons 3rd Cavalry Corps finally join the massed assaults on the battered allied infantry squares. With the 42 year old marechal de camp Frederic-Guillaume de Donop at their head, the 2nd and 3rd Cuirassier Regiments break from a trot into a canter as they clear the ridge. The heavy cavalry are smashed against the steadfast bayonets of the redcoats and countercharged by light horsemen. In one of these encounters the general himself is terribly wounded and falls from his horse. His son (aide-de-camp) is also injured. Both are reported missing and presumed captured. Although the generals body is not found,it is certain that he met his death in the muddy fields of Waterloo alongside many of his brigade. In 1895 his name is inscribed on the north face of LArc de Triomphe in Paris in recognition of his service to France.
Item Code : DHM0454
La Charge (Donops Cavalry at Waterloo) by Mark Churms. - Editions Available
At about 2.00pm the Union Brigade crashes through the ranks on Napoleons Ist Infantry Corps. The 2nd Royal North British Dragoons (later known as The Scots Greys) on the far left of the line, plow through Marcognets division, only Duruttes division will escape intact. With Brigade General Ponsortby at their head, elements of the now disordered Cavalry charge on to the French artillery. Even though, at close quarters, the Gunners and attached Infantry are no match for the wild Scots, they desperately try to save their 12 pounder field pieces. However the British heavy Cavalry is now out of control and Napoleons retribution will be swift. From the undulating ground before Paillotte comes the thunder of hooves and the deadly lances of 4th Regiment and the 3th Chasseurs a Cheval. In the confusion many of the British soldiers are completely unaware of the onslaught as the fresh French Cavalry sweeps through their flank. Ponsonbys mount leaps through the mud as the exhausted Brigade is h.........
Captain Montague Lind, leading a Squadron of the 1st Life Guards against the 12th regiment of Cuirassiers during the battle of waterloo, Hougoumont Farm can be seen in the distance.
Item Code : DHM0251
Charge of the Life Guards by Mark Churms. - Editions Available
Marshal Ney at the Battle of Waterloo by Mark Churms.
Marshal Ney charging at the head of the French cavalry against the British Squares. Of all Napoleons Generals at Waterloo none distinguished himself more than Marshal Ney, Prince of the Moskowa, the splendid warrior upon whom his Imperial master had conferred the proud title of Le Brave des Braves (The Bravest of the Brave) Twice he led the attack on the British centre, first at the head of the cavalry and then with the Old Guard, and he only retired from the field at nightfall, after five horses had been killed under him.
Item Code : DHM0250
Marshal Ney at the Battle of Waterloo by Mark Churms. - Editions Available
Through the driving rain, Captain Mercer (G, troop Royal Horse Artillery), riding his charger Cossack leads his battery to the ridge of Mount Saint Jean on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo.
Item Code : DHM0456
Officer, RHA, Belgium 1815 by Mark Churms. - Editions Available
On February 26th 1815, barely ten months after the end of the Peninsular War, Napoleon sailed from Elba to bring about the end of his brief period of exile. It was the beginning of the final, momentous chapter of the Napoleonic Wars that would culminate in the great battle of Waterloo and Napoleon's final downfall. The campaign was also to result in a head to head between the two great commanders of the age, Wellington and Napoleon, two men who had yet to face each other in battle.
Napoleon landed in France on March 1st and entered Paris on March 20th. He immediately set to work raising an army, the so-called Army of the North which, by the time of the Waterloo campaign consisted of 125,000 men. Facing Napoleon were the armies of the Seventh Coalition - it had declared Napoleon `an enemy and disturber of the world' - which numbered as many as 800,000 men. But of the various armies opposed to him it would be the Anglo-Dutch army, under Wellington, and Marshal Blucher's Army of the Lower Rhine that would be the object of Napoleon's thrust in June 1815.
Wellington's Anglo-Dutch army was a marked contrast to that which had triumphed in the Peninsula, that particular army having been dispersed and scattered around the world, mainly to America, and only a handful of his Peninsular regiments would be present with him at Waterloo. Many of these were already in Holland having served with Sir Thomas Graham's force which had taken part in the campaign against Bergen-op-Zoom in 1813 and 1814. In fact, only 34,000 of the 100,000 troops under Wellington were British, the rest being Germans, Hanoverians and Brunswickers, all good troops, and a large contingent of Nassauers, Dutch and Belgians. It was, as Wellington was moved to write, `an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped.' His staff was very inexperienced, although he did have several `old heads' from the Peninsula, such as Hill, Picton, Alten, Kempt, Pack and Somerset. He also had the services of the Earl of Uxbridge as commander of the Allied cavalry. Uxbridge had eloped with the latter's sister-in-law early on in the Peninsular campaign and following the Corunna campaign of 1808-09 saw no further service. As a result of this the British cavalry in the Peninsula was deprived of the only real cavalry commander the British Army possessed. Nevertheless, old differences having been settled, Uxbridge was to lead the cavalry with distinction during the Waterloo campaign.
On June 15th 1815 Napoleon's army crossed the Sambre, catching Wellington, who was dancing the night away with his officers at the now-famous ball, given by the Duchess of Richmond, by surprise. His army had concentrated to the south of Brussels with Blucher's Prussians on its left. Napoleon's plan was to drive a wedge between the two and fight each army separately. It was vital, therefore, to prevent co-operation between the two and on June 16th the two battles designed to ensure this were fought. At Ligny, Napoleon himself attacked Blucher and gave him a severe mauling while Ney, with about 42,000 men, attacked Wellington at the crossroads at Quatre Bras. The end result of a day of hard, confused fighting was that Blucher, having been forced to retreat north, in turn forced Wellington to withdraw in the same direction, marching parallel with the Prussians and keeping in close contact with them throughout.
Hogoumont by Mark Churms,Depicting Jeromes Infantry attacking the South gate of the Chateau during the
battle of Waterloo.
Marshal Ney at the Battle of Waterloo by Mark Churms
Marshal Ney charging at the head of the French cavalry against the
British Squares, Off all Napoleon's Generals at waterloo none
distinguished himself more than Marshal Ney, Prince of the Moskowa, the
splendid warrior upon whom his Imperial master had conferred the proud
title of Le Brave des Braves' (The Bravest of the Brave). twice he led
the attack on the British centre, first at the head of the cavalry and
then with the Old Guard, and he only retired from the field at
nightfall, after five horses had been killed under him.
DHM0251. Charge of the Life Guards by Mark Churms.
Captain Montague Lid, leading a Squadron of the 1st Life Guards against the
12th regiment of Cuirassiers during the battle of waterloo, Hougoumont Farm can
be seen in the distance.
DHM0258. Charge of the Union Brigade by Mark Churms.
At about 2.00pm the Union Brigade crashes through the ranks of
Napoleon's 1st Infantry Corps. The 2nd Royal British Dragoons on the far
left of the line plough through Marcognet's division. Only Durette's
division will escape intact. With Brigade General Ponsoby at their head,
elements of the now disordered cavalry charge on to the French artillery.
MARK0002. Original Oil Study of the Union Brigade painting by Mark
Churms.
DHM0456. Officer R.H.A Belgium 1815, by Mark Churms.
Through the driving rain, Captain Merver (G, troop Royal Horse Artillery),
riding his charger Cossack leads his battery to the ridge of Mount Saint Jean on
the eve of the Battle of Waterloo.
La Charge (Donop's Cavalry at Waterloo) by
Mark Churms
With Marechal de camp Frederic-Guillaume de Donop at their head, the
2nd and 3rd Cuirassier regiments charge the steadfast bayonets of the
redcoat squares.
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