When is a Hero a Hero?
Braunschweig celebrated on June 16th the 200th anniversary of the death of The Black Duke, Friedrich Wilhelm of Braunschweig in 1815. There is a special exhibition on at the State Museum about his life and death, most of which I could not read because there was no information available in English. I can read German quite well, but there was so much German to read, that I gave up the will to live half way through the afternoon.
The death of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm on the battlefield at Quatre-Bas.
The link below gives an account of his life.
Frederick William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (German: Friedrich Wilhelm; 9 October 1771 – 16 June 1815)
A model of the battle in the State Museum
Quite what the title of the exhibition means, I still haven't a clue, although it probably alludes to the assumption that he was a hero, even though the facts about his actions might prove his heroism was a fantasy.
Another lovely model of the battlefield at Quatre-Bas..
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