Welcome to Cooper's Waterloo Tours led by Graeme Cooper

Salamanca: London District debate Leith's Ridge where the luxury of time ran out for the French Infantry
 

Graeme conducts scheduled and tailored tours to the Napoleonic battlefields of Europe, the Great War and D-Day Normandy beaches. He specialises in the Waterloo Campaign and offers Corporate, and Leadership Events via Corporate Battlefields by arrangement

Tours 2009

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9-10 May:  Contrasting Battlefields - Agincourt & Dunkirk. Where a medieval English King in 1415 delivered against the odds and the Miracle of Dunkirk in 1940 where pending disaster turned into deliverance of a different kind and the saving of the British Army. The retreat, the massacre and the aftermath on both fields of conflict that shaped European history.  Ref: cwt 09-1

21-26 May: Salamanca, Fuentes de Onoro & Ciudad Rodrigo: Wellington’s epic battles of the Peninsular campaign and the siege of the northern most of the ‘Keys of Spain’. Ref: cwt 09-2

11-15 Jun: D-Day Normandy Landings 1944: The momentous events of the 6^th June 1944.  Pegasus Bridge, St Mere Eglise, Arromanches, and the five assault beaches of Sword, Juno, Gold, Utah and ‘Bloody’ Omaha.  Ref: cwt 09-3

25-29 Jun: Waterloo Campaign Battlefields 1815 Ligny, Quatre Bras, Wavre & Waterloo: Napoleon’s last Victory at Ligny and Quatre Bras where Wellington did not choose the ground.  A fascinating tour off the beaten track.  ‘The Way of the Prussians’ to the ‘Sound of the Guns', at Waterloo, the most intensive battlefield of them all. Includes Wellington’s Brussels by Night. Ref: cwt 09-4

10-13 July: Napoleon’s Waterloo 1815.  An in depth look at the battle, the ground, the outcomes and the men who fought it.  Ref: cwt 09-5

Last Tour: 
6 -10 Oct - Officers From HQ London District to Salamanca, Ciudad Rodrigo and Fuentes de Onoro 

'Your contribution was absolutely invaluable, most particularly in using your detailed knowledge of the Peninsular War battlefields to orientate us and to describe what happened all those years ago. As I said, it helps enormously to have someone who knows what they are talking about. Very many thanks for devoting so much of your time and effort to us.'

Major General W G Cubitt CBE -'OP PICASSO' London District Staff Ride to the Peninsular War - 6-10 Oct 08 

Salamanca: Atop the Arapilies to discuss Mission Command

10-12 Sep  Royal Military Academy at Waterloo

In the midst of Leadership lessons. Normandy Company at Waterloo.




Hougoumont's Waterloo infamous killing field - the southern wall at Hougoumont

On Mercer's Ridge why the 2034 men of the 52nd Foot inclined to deliver the telling volleys into the ranks of the 4 Chasseurs of the Imperial Garde

Next Tour: TBC

Future Tours: TBC

Next Presentation
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Last Presentation
30 June - LeSwap - Wallace Collection - Waterloo
The Chance Decision 

200th Anniversaries
Napoleonic Celebrations... Who, What, When, and Where?
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Complimentary Presentations
Enabling you to raise funds for a good cause. In your Village Hall, Club, home or a venue to suit you. Subjects include 'Touring European Battlefields', 'Napoleon's Waterloo'
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