Black Powder Epic Battles - Waterloo: Prussian Landwehr Brigade storage 1 metal mortar

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The Battle of Waterloo

Cornwallis brought Royal Sovereign southwards imposing his vessel between the two fleets

Its ferocious rate of fire meant it was feared by Allied fighter-bomber pilots and was also very effective in the ground role

Dropped from their C-47 Dakotas high above the Normandy countryside

Black Powder Epic Battles - Waterloo: Prussian Landwehr Brigade storage 1 metal mortarAfter losing to Napoleon in 1806 the Treaty of Tilsit neutered the Prussian army, allowing the once proud country only a tiny standing army. Despite ingenious efforts to circumvent the wording of the treaty, the Prussian army that mustered to fight in the Hundred Days campaign was mostly made from volunteer Landwehr militia (literally, country defenders). Ill equipped and poorly trained, the Landwehr infantry and cavalry regiments made up for this