Wellington and his Gunners 

What an astoundingly well spoken gentleman fully articulating the beauty of the English language!

I love finding great lectures on the Napoleonic period.

Very fine and clear articulation by Mr. Nich Lipscombe.

Well done Nick. Fascinating lecture and wonderful research.

Thank you for a fascinating and very well presented lecture, I could listen all day.

My father died this year (June 2019)...6 months before he died he gave me a medal that had been handed down to him via generations...The medal is the Military General Service Medal from the peninsula war...Stamped along the bottom edge is my Great, Great etc. Grandfathers name together with 'R.Arty Drivers'...The clasps list 'Vittoria, Pyrenees and St.Sebastian'...I don't have any more information on who my relative was or what he did so I am grateful for any help...Thank you for the talk and video on this subject...

Outstanding lecture form a unique perspective.

Highly interesting topic... Very well presented

Very good!

Catnip ... wonderful stuff.

Most interesting. To be fair Wellington was even more critical of his cavalry.

Ramsay at least got some measure of revenge on Wellington just before his death. When Wellington met him just before the start of the battle, Ramsay replied to Wellington's greeting, with a very mocking exaggerated greeting with a ridiculing bow involved.

A very interesting lecture, it has occurred to me, with a slight reduction ( if the engineering is possible ) in the grand battle of cannon on the top of the hill more could be done to maintain the pre-planed position. For at the Battle for Hougoumont Farm, a uncommanded section of four cannon and crew carefully positioned around the garden would have accounted for more french troops with case shot, old school without superior Shrapnel bombs (the killing field). I suppose neither Commander could foresee the amount of command that would thrown at this pinprick. At the very least low on the problematic horse nemesis.

Many French gun teams were leaving the battlefield before the end of battle because they were out of ammo. Probably the same reason why some Allied gun teams were choosing the option of leaving the field.

Thank God for a prognosis on Waterloo from someone who knows what he's talking about, and not some ignorant, transatlantic, chancer.

0.31 "[G-Troop] was all but annihilated..." - sorry, but that is utter twaddle. G-Troop had a nominal strength of 168 men. Over the three days' fighting it lost 6 men killed (one of whom tripped and fell in front of a cannon), and around double that number wounded. Not even close to annihilation, I'm afraid

Unfortunate that he has left himself open to criticism on a point of detail. Otherwise, this is a masterly performance. Text-book stuff.Would that my various lecturers had possessed the same talent.

Wellington in his Indian battles beat French trained Indian troops on strength of his gunners. The East India company had Indians as troops many ex accountants English as officers yet they defeated the Marathas 6 times & once Tipu Sultan who even had missile like weapons on strength of his guns. So he must be disappointed at Waterloo

Wellington had a doctrine that precluded the most effective use of artillery - en masse, in what the French called a 'Grand Battery'. He would use individual pieces, rarely a full battery, to buttress his line against the superior numbers of the French. This accounts, in my opinion, the relatively low value Lord W placed on his own artillery. It was nearly always outnumbered, and definitely outweighed, by the French; the French had 12lb artillery - what Napoleon called "my beautiful daughters". In any straight confrontation gun to gun, the British would have been smothered.

he is talking a lot of crap