Today is the anniversary of this great battle of the Napoleonic wars - This epic cavalry action is depicted in the novel Colonel Chabert which was filmed with Gerard Depardieu, and is worth hunting down - unfortunately I can't find a trailer but if I remember the action sequences were a second unit sequence shot in Poland and pretty spectacular.The short film below with French text is well put together and worth a look at even if you don't speak French as its full of images and you will get the flavour of this icy, bloody battle. It is where the immortal lines "Heads up, by God!" he cried, "Those are bullets- not turds" by Lepic when he noticed some men ducking. The above print by Mark Churms shows these famous cavalrymen - Horse grenadiers of the Guard about to charge against overwhelming odds.
