Black Powder Epic Battles: Waterloo - French Imperial Guard Horse artillery 6-pdr battery 0819 Jersey-born Philip Leroy Kirkwood won

Jersey-born Philip Leroy Kirkwood won fame when he became an ‘Ace in a day’ during furious aerial combat around Okinawa in April 1945

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Black Powder Epic Battles: Waterloo - French Imperial Guard Horse artillery 6-pdr battery 0819 Jersey-born Philip Leroy Kirkwood wonThe horse artillery was not just the elite of Napoleon's Guard Artillery but the creme de la Creme of European artillery in the period. Guard horse artillery can quickly counter enemy threats, able as they are to reposition at the gallop as needed. France's foremost historian on the Napoleonic Wars, Commandant Henry Lachouque, writes in his book 'Anatomy of Glory Napoleon and his Guard', "There was, perhaps, no class of men on the face of Earth, who