k-h.a.w wrote: Peire wrote: k-h.a.w wrote: Peire wrote:
And now Ladies and Gentlemen,a little discovery,pictured by Sony GM 50/1.2......
Last Saturday I visited a village 20km South-West of my home.There is a palace there - the former residence of one of the most famous Prussian marshals and a prince from the times of napoleonic wars.I mean Gebhard Leberecht Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt,or simply Marshal von Blücher.
The palace was built as a castle in the 14th Century,but it's contemporary elevation shows the result of the XiXth Century renovation.Surrounded by the large park full of old oaks and picturesque fish ponds,where at this time of the year tenths of bird's species are singing.
Alas,I coud not get in for an espresso and a little glass of Hennesy XO drunk in a medieval courtyard,which i always do,as it is closed because of pandemic.
A7R2+Sony GM 50/1.2 at f8
A7R2+Sony GM 50/1.2 wide open
......there are two small cannons standing in front of the palace.At the first glance they look like XVII-XVIII Century's european cannons and not the ones from the XIX'th Century.............
A7R2+Sony GM 50/1.2 wide open.....
........initially I thought they are Prussian made cannons,yet closer inspection revealed to my emotion the coat of arms of the last King of Poland and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski.........
Sony GM 50/1.2 at f8
.......The cannon's production date says in latin 1779.Prussians must have stolen it from armory or win it during one of the numerous last battles fought by the dying Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.There are traces or re-calibration in the picture above,so they probably adjusted it to their standards in order to use further on.....
In 1779 Brigade General Tadeusz Kościuszko - American and Polish historically important person was successfully fortifying West Point to prevent the bloodthirsty :=) assault of the British.Few years later he was back to leader the last war against Russians using similar cannons.May be the same.....
.....and in the cartridge chamber of one of the cannons live laborous ants, which can be seen when they come out in a row from the hole where the fuse was once applied to trigger an explosion of a powder charge and a cannon shot.
Many thanks Peire for the wonderful pictures and the history lesson.
K-H.
Thank you Karl-Heinz.I appreciate it even more,because your roots are Prussian-Silesian.Like mine to some extent.
Thanks Peire. That’s the same Blücher who fought so decisively at Waterloo, no?
Very interesting place indeed.
K-H.
Yes,he was.
Prussian generals were not outstanding at that times compared to French,but Blucher,according to general assessment was at least as good as Yorck von Wartenburg and better than widely acclaimed Prince Friedrich von Hohenlohe or many other Prussian leaders from that times.And this feeling of "decisiveness" to attacks the French during the Waterloo battle was not his geniune merit.He was just more of a military robot being lucky to arrive on time.Lucky enough for historical records.
Yet my Prussian brother.
For me,the forlorn French soldiers during the 1815 Waterloo battle are more symphatetic than the rest of participants,though I regret all casualties.It is maybe because of 40% of my blood is Polish and my brothers.
Poles used to fight to death though they knew that the fight is lost from the very begining.This is the largest part of my spiritual and cultural heritage,so what can I do?I must follow the row of my grand-great grandfathers since the XVI Century. looking at me from heavens.
Why? Because they were rihght in what they were doing.
Also,I could easily imagine to be ein preußischer Militärarzt or a Generalstabsoffizier,as I am a qualified,patented doctor and the major in our army,liking tactical and strategic games,same as underwent in the military prussians high schools.
That could have probably been if I lived at that past times,like my great grandfather - the medical docor from Konigsberg.
May 12, 2021 at 10:05 AM
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