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A Horse Gunner's view of the world's most famous battle
Captain Mercer has left posterity a vital and remarkable book in
his Journal of the Campaign of 1815. It is, of course, written from
the perspective of an officer of the Royal Horse Artillery of
Wellington's army and so brings to life a host of detail about the
composition, daily workings, camp life and battle field
manoeuvrings of the British Horse Artillery during the Napoleonic
Wars. This alone would recommend it to anyone interested in the
period. It is much more. Mercer's substantial work covers a
comparatively short period of time from the call to arms following
Napoleon's escape from Elba through to the landing on the
continent, the fearsome battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo-which
all but destroyed his troop-to the pursuit of the fleeing French
Army to Paris and the subsequent occupation. He recorded everything
he saw, felt and personally experienced in fine detail on a day by
day basis. This not only provides us with an incomparable portrait
of momentous events, but also a detailed and illuminating view of
Belgium, Northern France and Paris itself from it's people to the
minutiae of everyday life and the culture of the capital in the
early years of the 19th century.
A Horse Gunner's view of the world's most famous battle
brCaptain Mercer has left posterity a vital and remarkable book in
his Journal of the Campaign of 1815. It is, of course, written from
the perspective of an officer of the Royal Horse Artillery of
Wellington's army and so brings to life a host of detail about the
composition, daily workings, camp life and battle field
manoeuvrings of the British Horse Artillery during the Napoleonic
Wars. This alone would recommend it to anyone interested in the
period. It is much more. Mercer's substantial work covers a
comparatively short period of time from the call to arms following
Napoleon's escape from Elba through to the landing on the
continent, the fearsome battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo-which
all but destroyed his troop-to the pursuit of the fleeing French
Army to Paris and the subsequent occupation. He recorded everything
he saw, felt and personally experienced in fine detail on a day by
day basis. This not only provides us with an incomparable portrait
of momentous events, but also a detailed and illuminating view of
Belgium, Northern France and Paris itself from it's people to the
minutiae of everyday life and the culture of the capital in the
early years of the 19th century.
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