Wednesday, January 10, 2007

French Napoleonic living history group

Maybe you are fancying a new hobby for this year? How about some hard campaigning following the Emperor as he blazes a trail across Europe?
Ah the Neufieme... or 9ème Regiment d'Infanterie Légère - I can remember the time - as I have said on this blog before - when this group was about 3 blokes in number and people thought they were too hard core to ever get to a decent size - now they have sections all over Europe and look immense and they have the quality too; having started with high standards they have steadily increased without compromising. They have a great webpage too. Well done. They are a credit to the concept of sticking to your guns - they have been following a bicentennial progress through their events and uniform changes - this image is from the reenactment of Marengo. Wiki on Marengo