>La garde meurt, mais elle ne se rend pas What the fuck

testes were too big

Honour

>>2699133
>La garde meurt, mais elle ne se rend pas
They were the old guard for a reason
This is making me want to play Napoleon:TW now

>>2699133
wtf why are they black

>>2699133
Loyalty.

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>>2699373
>Watching the Austrians in their little white jackets waltz up the hill towards you lines whilst getting their ranks torn apart by your grand battery
c'est bon mon amie
Also
>>2699133
Never defeated in combat, didn't want to start now so went out like the Spartans at Thermopylae. Brave bastards fighting and dying for a man and nation they believed in.
>>2699379
All that powder in the air and from tearing cartridges.

>>2699133
>no veteran found nor pension system, nor anything like retirement fund at all
>their only options were either dying in battle or spending the rest of their lives as begging cripple by the churches' doors

>>2699133
same problem as everyone
anglos

>>2699133
Those people weren't just random old men, they were men who had served in the military for decades and to many of them military life was all they knew.
They were faced with whether to surrender and live the rest of their lives as humiliated beggars or to fight and die with a shred of dignity.

>>2699379
from the gunpowder and smoke.

>>2700969
Literally the best kind of personal guards

>>2699133
It was rumored that the "Old Guard" were invincible and had never before been beaten in battle. Riding back and forth along the edge of the British held ridgeline, behind his prone troops and astride his big war horse Copenhagen was Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington along with his retinue of staff officers and messenger riders. As the French Guard Regiments approached to near point blank range, Wellesley shouted to the Foot Guard commander Major General Peregrine Maitland. "Now Maitland! Now's your time!"

Maitland in turn shouted to his troops “Up Guards! Up!!" The two thousand British troops arose with their bayonet fixed Brown Bess 75 caliber muskets resting upon their shoulders. "MAKE READY!" Maitland shouted and his NCO's echoed his order to the men up and down the line. The British brought their muskets up to the vertical while bringing them to full cock. "FIRE!" and two thousand British muskets roared as one, dropping over 300 French infantry in a single volley while nearly concealing the British position atop the ridge in a thick cloud of white gunpowder smoke smelling of rotten eggs.

Maitland now shouted. "CHARGE YOUR BAYONETS!" and the Foot Guards loudly shouted a fearsome "HUZZAH!!" while levelling their bayonet fixed muskets at the Frenchmen. "At A QUICK MARCH!!” Maitland shouted and his two thousand troops stepped out briskly, marching shoulder to shoulder towards the French Guards whose eyes now for the first time reflected fear as their line began to waver.

>>2701129
reads like shitty fanfic senpai
certainly not history

>>2699133
Nothing wrong with this
More a case of "what the fuck happened to france after this"

>>2699493
This would be GOAT tier if it had gray hair and a large moustache.

>>2699133
Absolute devotion to a brilliant and loved leader. Highly admirable

>>2701129
>>2701243
This desu maybe would be more interesting with some eroticism

>>2701243
Are you not aware of the battle of waterloo?
A battle in which the old guard were routed by Wellingtons soldiers?

>>2699379
Black powder grimes everything.

>>2699133
Their problem was going into an attack with cavalry or Horse Artillery support.

Plus, they should have been ordered forward about an hour earlier, when Wellington's really was a mess

>>2699133
>La garde meurt et ne se rend pas
Sounds better desu. also austrians are wretches.
>>2701243
The brits were entering the romantic period during the time. plus wellington was like 100% ego.
>>2702281
You're thinking of the middle guard, the old guard didnt directly attack