Welcome to Cooper's Waterloo Tours led by Graeme Cooper

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where it all happened on that bloody Sunday afternoon in June 1815

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

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

 21-25 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 6th 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 

Next Tour: Dunkirk & Agincourt 9-10 May

Places remaining Large Group Tours 2009:
Please contact us for further details.

  • 31 Aug - 2 Sep - A 'Waterloo Weekend'
     Ref: cwt 09-6.

  • 19-20 Sep - The Battle of Waterloo - 2 Day
    Ref: cwt 09-    7.

  • 2-5 Sep - 'Waterloo with the Guild of Battlefield Guides'
    Ref: Cwt 09-    8.

Presentations

  • 30 January - North Weald Airfield Museum Society - Business Lessons from the Battlefield
     
  • 11 February - 41 Club - 'Waterloo'
     
  • 5 May - Ulcombe History Group - 'Napoleon's Waterloo'

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

200th Anniversaries
Napoleonic Celebrations... Who, What, When, and Where?
more info

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'

 - 'Business lessons from the Battlefield'

 more info

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