Napoleon himself -- played for the past ten years of re-enactments by Parisian lawyer Frank Samson, 47 -- is camped out on the road to the industrial town of Charleroi while his forces are a little further off in a rolling field.
Date: Jun 20, 2015
Category: World
Source: Google
Battle of Waterloo relived: the sound a fury of a Napoleonic war re-enactment
The Duke of Wellington was played by Alan Larsen, a 55-year-old New Zealander now living in Derbyshire who has been a re-enactor since he was 18. Napoleon was played by Frank Samson, a Parisian lawyer.
Date: Jun 20, 2015
Category: World
Source: Google
Portable loos and Belgian officiousness: When 'war' breaks out at the Battle of ...
Larsens counterpart, Parisian lawyer Frank Samson who is playing Napoleon, is proving to be similarly non pc and describes the Duke as "a frightful Englishman who noone has ever heard of". Typically, Samson has ensconced himself in a grand bivouac surrounded by his magnificently-attired generals an