"Archaeologists to
excavate Napoleonic farmhouse defended by Coldstream Guards in Battle of
Waterloo"
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| Hougoumont farmhouse |
The Defence Archaeology
Group led by Diarmaid Walshe will be excavating with Prof Tony Pollard's Glasgow University team at the site of Hougoumont - a key location during the Battle of Waterloo.
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| James Gramam |
Hougoumont is a cluster
of 12 buildings situated in woodland directly below the main position selected
by the Iron Duke to break up the advance of the French infantry. As the battle reached a critical moment, with
14,000 French soldiers on the brink of breaking into the compound and securing
victory, Corporal James Graham, a 24-year-old guardsman, closed the large gates
of the farm while under fire.
According to Mark Evans, “Every guardsman from day one in training is told
about Waterloo and Hougoumont and what that means to be a Coldstream Guard.”
Mark Evans is a former Coldstream Guards officer, who narrowly escaped death while fighting in Afghanistan, and is a member
of the DAG team (as I will be, though my excavation skills are rusty!).
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