The Battle of Waterloo 2015 Commemorative Stamps

At last I have brought my set of The Battle of Waterloo 2015 commemorative set of stamps via ebay which only took two days to deliver them to me. The British Post Office made a set of stamps to mark the 200^th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, I had completely forgotten about these at the time. But now they are in my stamp collection.

The landscape stamps are: 

The defence of Hougoumont

The Scots Greys during the charge of the Union Brigade

The French cavalry’s assault on allied defensive squares

The defence of La Haye Sainte by the King’s German Legion

The capture of Plancenoit by the Prussians

The French Imperial Guard’s final assault

The horizontal stamps are: 

92^nd Gordon Highlanders

Light Infantry King’s German Legion

Prussian Infantryman

French Imperial Guard Grenadier 

These stamps look great but I wonder how many people collect stamps these days?

Another Book?

 

Now as you know I am not much of a reader but I have brought another book this time by Christopher Hibbert “Waterloo”. At the moment it is being sold in The Works (UK) for £3 but I found this book unread and for only £1 in a book shop while I was on holiday in Norfolk last month.

This paperback has 324 pages which includes an introduction, with chapters on Napoleon, Wellington and the allied armies and Blucher and his army and then the battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras and then Waterloo. 

I can add this book to two others that need reading. When this will happen I have no Idea but they are ready and waiting.