Event Type: Local / Community

Takes Place: 19th October 2024

Time: 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Venue: University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY

Description: Welcome to a day of fascinating talks about how the South-West was involved in the Napoleonic Wars. A programme of six speakers range across diverse subjects such as: Bristol's Band of Brothers (Ian Chard), Cavalié Mercer's life from Plymouth to Waterloo (Robert Pocock); black soldiers in the regiments of the South-West (John Ellis); the Old French Prison at Stapleton (Mike Robinson); the battle of Wavre 1815 (Andrew Field); and the life and times of General Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes, a celebrity prisoner at Cheltenham (Colonel Sir William Mahon). A lunchtime 'show and tell' gives delegates the opportunity o display and discuss period artefacts.

How to book: Bookings are essential ands can be made through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-south-west-in-the-napoleonic-wars-tickets-949747198437?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2Amfz9yb%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMjAwMDE2NDIzNi4xNzIxMjI0MDky%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AMTcyMTIyNDA5MS4xLjAuMTcyMTIyNDA5MS4wLjAuMA..

Price: £15.00

Tel: 07716 681500

Email: mike.robinson@uwe.ac.uk

Organiser: The Waterloo Association and The Regional History Centre

Lecturer: Various

Region: South-West England