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Aug. 30th, 2009 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
almaviva90I've downloaded yet another big-arse pdf file of Wellingtonia...now the condensed and yet still huge volume (502 pages) or the General Orders of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington from 1809-1815. OTZ
But browsing through the various orders issued by Wellington during the Peninsular Campaign gives you some interesting and sometimes amusing finds...there was even one official order about the problem of bee-hives:
"16th August 1809
G.O. 1
The soldiers are again positively prohibited to plunder bee-hives. Any man found with a bee-hive in his possession will be punished."
HAHAHAHAHA...can you imagine stuffing this huge bee-hive into your rucksack or even trying to move it around the camp in front of your fellow soldiers and officers? The imagery of this is simply amusing.
But browsing through the various orders issued by Wellington during the Peninsular Campaign gives you some interesting and sometimes amusing finds...there was even one official order about the problem of bee-hives:
"16th August 1809
G.O. 1
The soldiers are again positively prohibited to plunder bee-hives. Any man found with a bee-hive in his possession will be punished."
HAHAHAHAHA...can you imagine stuffing this huge bee-hive into your rucksack or even trying to move it around the camp in front of your fellow soldiers and officers? The imagery of this is simply amusing.
