Black Powder Epic Battles: Waterloo - French Imperial Guard Horse artillery 6-pdr battery 0819 Black Tone

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the FN M2HB remains in service with the Belgian military today

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Jersey-born Philip Leroy Kirkwood won fame when he became an ‘Ace in a day’ during furious aerial combat around Okinawa in April 1945

Black Powder Epic Battles: Waterloo - French Imperial Guard Horse artillery 6-pdr battery 0819 Black ToneThe horse artillery was not just the elite of Napoleon's Guard Artillery but the creme de la Creme of European artillery in the period. Guard horse artillery can quickly counter enemy threats, able as they are to reposition at the gallop as needed. France's foremost historian on the Napoleonic Wars, Commandant Henry Lachouque, writes in his book 'Anatomy of Glory Napoleon and his Guard', "There was, perhaps, no class of men on the face of Earth, who