Napoleonic Wars 1789-1815

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New Pictures: Farmhouse Assault – La Haye Sainte collector’s edition

Like our previous battle-sets (Rorke’s Drift! and Pegasus Bridge) La Haye Sainte comes in two forms – a glorious boxed set full of Napoleonic loveliness, and a collector’s edition containing stacks more goodies that expands on the contents of the main box. In fact there’s so much stuff in the Farmhouse Assault Collector’s Edition that Studio painter…

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History: Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Napoleon was born on the 15th of August 1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica. His military career started early as he was sent to France and enrolled in the military academy at Brienne-le-Château at the age of nine. In 1784, at the ripe old age of fifteen, he began his training as an artillery officer at the École Militaire in Paris. He graduated a…