Wednesday 10 June 2015
Viney House (Army Reserve Centre), Oxford Road, Aylesbury, HP19 8RN
1830 for 1900 Hours
Tickets £15 each (to include refreshments) from:
BMMT, c/o Ms G Richmond, 25 Market Square, Leighton Buzzard, Beds, LU7 1EU (Tel: 01296 712717)
We are delighted to announce that this year’s lecture will be delivered by eminent historian, biographer and broadcaster, Andrew Roberts. Andrew will speak on ‘Napoleon at Waterloo’.
It is appropriate in this bicentenary year to have the talk on the subject of Waterloo. Two regiments associated with Bucks were present on 18 June 1815. The 3/14th Foot, the Waterloo Colour of which is preserved at Claydon House, was raised in Bucks in 1813 and was rushed to Belgium when Napoleon returned from Elba to reclaim his throne. Tradition has it that new recruits hastily raised from the Royal Bucks King’s Own Militia were still wearing their militia uniforms on the battlefield. The 52nd Light Infantry, later 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, played a crucial role in the repulse of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard at the battle’s climax.
Andrew Roberts’s publications include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (1999), Masters and Commanders (2008), Napoleon and Wellington (2001), Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Gamble (2004), and his most recent book, Napoleon the Great (2014), The latter was listed as one of the Books of the Year by The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Mail on Sunday and The London Evening News, and as one of the Biographies of the Year in The Daily Telegraph and The Observer. Napoleon the Great has just won the Los Angeles Times Biography Prize.
