‘Perfidious Albion’: Napoleon and his British nemesis
"Napoleon Bonaparte’s Anglophobia stretched back to his days as an obscure young Corsican at French military academies. After his stupendous rise to Emperor, it was the British who smashed his navy at Trafalgar and exiled him to St Helena following the Duke of Wellington’s victory at Waterloo. FRANCE 24 looks back on Napoleon’s antagonism against the country he cast as 'perfidious Albion'.”
Perfidious Albion? Honestly, you screw over ONE Prussian despot and you never hear the end of it..... 😎
Of course, thaw photograph is not of a Waterloo re-enactment. The earlier uniforms are apparent. The King’s Colour has no St Patrick’s cross so pre-dates 1801