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Die hard 57th, die hard! Scenario#: AN01     Date: May 16, 1811     Location: Albuera, Spain Battle of Albuera Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
We are babies in the hands of a giant. Scenario#: AN02     Date: December 2, 1805     Location: Austerlitz, Austria Battle of Austerlitz Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
The whole nation is exasperated and determined to fight. Scenario#: AN03     Date: July 19, 1808     Location: Bailén, Spain Battle of Bailén Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
The bitter cup must be drunk to the bottom. Scenario#: AN04     Date: January 8, 1806     Location: Cape Town, South Africa Battle of Blaauwberg Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
I have never witnessed a more gallant charge. Scenario#: AN05     Date: September 27, 1810     Location: Luso, Portugal Battle of Bussaco Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Battle in the Großer Garten Scenario#: AN06     Date: August 26-27, 1813     Location: Dresden, Germany Battle of Dresden Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Then we have already made peace. Scenario#: AN07     Date: June 14, 1807     Location: Friedland, Prussia Battle of Friedland Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
The Zenith of Jean Moreau Scenario#: AN08     Date: December 3, 1800     Location: Hohenlinden, Germany Battle of Hohenlinden Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Tell your Marshal he is seeing double. Scenario#: AN09     Date: October 14, 1806     Location: Auerstädt, Germany Battle of Jena–Auerstedt Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
What will they say in Paris after this victory? Scenario#: AN10     Date: February 1, 1814     Location: La Rothière, France Battle of La Rothiere Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
The Last Major Battle of the Napoléonic Wars Scenario#: AN11     Date: June 28, 1815     Location: Souffelweyersheim, France Battle of La Suffel Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Butchery at Dusk Scenario#: AN12     Date: July 25, 1814     Location: Niagara Falls, Canada Battle of Lundy's Lane Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Here began the flight and destruction of the enemy. Scenario#: AN13     Date: October 24, 1812     Location: Maloyaroslavets , Russia Battle of Maloyaroslavets Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
The Eighth Scenario#: AN14     Date: January 8, 1815     Location: New Orleans, Louisiana Battle of New Orleans Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Now it’s time for action! Scenario#: AN15     Date: August 15, 1799     Location: Piedmont, Italy Battle of Novi (1799) Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Disaster at Niagara Scenario#: AN16     Date: October 13, 1812     Location: Queenston Heights , Canada Battle of Queenston Heights Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Bonaparte's First Masterpiece Scenario#: AN17     Date: January 14, 1797     Location: Rivoli, Italy Battle of Rivoli Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
…forty centuries look down upon you. Scenario#: AN18     Date: July 21, 1798     Location: Embabeh, Egypt Battle of the Pyramids Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Remember the Raisin! Scenario#: AN19     Date: October 5, 1813     Location: Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada Battle of the Thames Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Archduke Charles’ Last Battle Scenario#: AN20     Date: July 5-6, 1809     Location: Wagram, Austria Battle of Wagram Horse & Musket — Age of Napoléon (V)
Pegasus Bridge Scenario#: 3671     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Pegasus Bridge, France The late hours of June 5, 1944... Led by Major John Howard, the men of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry step aboard six Horsa gliders on a secret airfield in Dorset. Their mission: to launch the first airborne assault of … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Sainte-Mère-Église Scenario#: 3672     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Sainte-Mère-Église, France Establishment of a defensive base at Sainte-Mère-Église was one of the key objectives of the US 82nd Airborne Division. In contrast with other regiments, the 505th Parachute Infantry, landing northwest of Sainte-Mère-Église, had one of the most… Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Mont Mouchet Scenario#: 3673     Date: 6/10/1944     Location: Mont Mouchet, France On June 10th, three tactical groups from the Wehrmacht, about 2,000 men with armored support, converged on Mont Mouchet. Simultaneously moving in from the west (Saint Flour), north (Langeac and Pinols) and east (Le Puy-en-Velay et Saugues) they were… Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Vassieux-en-Vercors Scenario#: 3674     Date: 7/24/1944     Location: Vassieux, France Hotbed of the French Resistance, the "Maquis" of Vercors became one of the largest groups of its kind in the early months of 1944, with countless young French recruits joining up. Resistance camps were established around many villages such as … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Toulon Scenario#: 3675     Date: 8/26/1944     Location: Toulon, France Plans for the landings and campaign in southern France called for the French 2nd Corps to take the port cities of Toulon and Marseille. Seeking to exploit German weakness in the area, General de Lattre de Tassigny pushed up the … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Montélimar Scenario#: 3676     Date: 8/25/1944     Location: Montélimar, France The Montélimar battle square, bounded on three sides by rivers, covered ground that alternated between flat open farmland and rugged hills and woods. Route N-7, the main north-south artery, runs along the Rhone River and was vital to the German … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Arnhem Bridge Scenario#: 3677     Date: 9/19/1944     Location: Arnhem, Holland The largest airborne drop ever designed, Operation Market Garden was Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery's plan to end the war on the Western Front early. If successful, it would threaten the flanks of German defenses along the Siegfried line and… Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Saint-Vith Scenario#: 3678     Date: 12/22/1944     Location: Saint-Vith, Belgium As early as August 1944, Adolf Hitler began formulating plans for what would become the Ardennes offensive. While too ambitious for the available resources and terrain, the plan was deemed by the German High Command as having more chances of … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Saverne Gap Scenario#: 3679     Date: 11/23/1944     Location: Saverne, France The Saverne Gap, cutting through the Vosges, was the key to Strasbourg, capital city of Alsace. On November 21st, the US Seventh Army 15th Corps, under the command of General Wade Hampton Halslip, arrived at the front lines in Phalsbourg. … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Attack on Hill 192 Scenario#: 3680     Date: 7/11/1944     Location: la Croix-Rouge, France For the past month, Hill 192, a dominating height east of the Vire River, has given the Germans a superb observation position on all the approaches to St-Lo, as well as the rear areas of V Corps as far as … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Juno Beach Scenario#: 3681     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Juno Beach, France The Canadian troops were assigned to land at Juno beach on D-Day and push inland. Juno had been divided into two beaches, 'Mike' and 'Nan'. The 7th Canadian Brigade under Brigadier H.W. Foster would land on Mike and the 8th … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Gold Beach Scenario#: 3682     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Gold Beach, France The German defenses at Gold consisted of two battalions of the 726th Regiment supported by inland batteries. Barbed wire and a few anti-tank hedgehog obstacles protected the entire stretch of beach. The British planners had divided Gold beach into… Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Strasbourg Scenario#: 3683     Date: 1/11/1945     Location: Strasbourg, France On the 7th of January 1945, the German Nineteen Army initiated an attack south of Strasbourg against the First French Army. Code-named 'Sonnenwende' ("Winter Solstice"), the operation led by the 198th Volksgrenadier Division, the 106th Panzer Brigade… Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Relief of Peiper Scenario#: 3684     Date: 12/22/1944     Location: Trois Ponts, Belgium Ordered to move to the relief of Kampfgruppe 'Peiper', Max Hansen on December 21st started probing with his battlegroup between Trois-Ponts and Grand-Halleux. The 505th Parachute Regiment had established a defensive front to defend or blow the… Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Bastogne Corridor West Scenario#: 3685     Date: 12/30/1944     Location: Bastogne, Belgium On December 30th German High Command's plan to capture Bastogne called for a push from the west simultaneously with another from the east. The object of these two forces was to pinch the corridor at Assenois south of the town. … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Bastogne Corridor East Scenario#: 3686     Date: 12/30/1944     Location: Bastogne, Belgium On December 30th German High Command's plan to capture Bastogne called for a push from the west simultaneously with another from the east. The object of these two forces was to pinch the corridor at Assenois south of the town. … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Twin Villages Scenario#: 3687     Date: 12/18/1944     Location: Krinkekt, Belgium The Ardennes offensive began in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, 16th December 1944. The northernmost element of the German attack was an attempt by the 67th Corps in the Monschau forest to push through the left wing of the US … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Yellow Beach Scenario#: 3688     Date: 8/19/1942     Location: Dieppe, France The 23rd British Assault Craft force heading toward the Yellow Beaches sailed into the path of a German convoy. The German ships opened fire and after a brisk engagement, the British commanders agreed that the landings at Yellow Beaches should … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Carentan Causeway Scenario#: 3689     Date: 6/11/1944     Location: Carentan, France Rommel realized the danger to the Axis defenses should Carentan fall, for it was the link between the two US beaches and also the key to an American drive west to cut the base of the Cotentin Peninsula. The defense … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Sword Beach Scenario#: 3693     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Sword Beach, France The 8th Brigade of the 3rd British Division, supported by Commandos of the 1st Special Service Brigade and the amphibious Sherman tanks of the 13th/18th Hussars, formed the first wave of Allied forces to land on "Sword" beach, near the … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Pointe-du-Hoc Scenario#: 3694     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Pointe-du-Hoc, France Planners felt that the German batteries on Pointe-du-Hoc would be one of the most daunting threats to Allied forces landing on Omaha in the morning of D-Day. Set atop 100 foot cliffs west of the beach, the guns' range were … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Operation Cobra Scenario#: 3696     Date: 7/26/1944     Location: Marigny, France Operation "Cobra" was predicated on the saturation bombing of German lines over a narrow front. After the bombing, an attack would be made by three infantry divisions, with two armored and one infantry divisions held in reserve of this breakout … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Counter-attack on Mortain Scenario#: 3697     Date: 8/7/1944     Location: Mortain, France "We must strike like lightning!" - Adolf Hitler to Field Marshall Von Kluge 'Unternehmen Luttich' began shortly before midnight on the evening of August 3rd. Under direct orders from Hitler, four armored divisions launched a counterattack westward… Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Liberation of Paris Scenario#: 3699     Date: 8/24/1944     Location: Paris, France Conscious of the highly symbolic and political importance of Paris, Allied forces initially planned to surround the city and wait for its capitulation rather than risk taking it, with the inherent costs of street-by-street fighting and obvious risks… Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Battle of Arracourt Scenario#: 3700     Date: 9/19/1944     Location: Arracourt, France Part of the problem for the German forces involved in the Lorraine counter-offensive was the "Eastern" outlook of many of the units. They were unfamiliar with the US Army and its very different tactics. On the Eastern front, tank formations … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Operation Goodwood Scenario#: 3701     Date: 7/20/1944     Location: Cagny, France Around 8 AM on July 18th, after an aerial bombardment of more than two hours' duration, Operation "Goodwood" started. Caen was being cleared successfully by the Canadian Corps, while the 11th Armored Division moved forward followed by the Guards… Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Utah Beach Scenario#: 3702     Date: 6/6/1944     Location: Utah Beach, France The American plan was that following the air and naval bombardment, the 8th Regiment would land first, followed by Duplex Drive (DD) tanks. Utah was divided into a northern beach 'Tare' and a southern beach 'Uncle'. When Brigadier General Theodore … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Operation Spring Scenario#: 3703     Date: 7/25/1944     Location: Tilly-la-Campagne, France Operation Spring called for the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Divisions supported by the 7th Guards Armored Division to make a deliberate attack in the direction of Falaise. The first phase of the plan was the capture of May-sur-Orne, Verrières Ridge … Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Gallabat-Metemma Scenario#: 3704     Date: 11/6/1940     Location: Metemma, Ethiopia Gallabat-Metemma was Britain's first land offensive of the East Africa campaign. On November 6th, 1940, Brigadier J.W. Slim led the British assault. Under his command were the 10th Indian Infantry Brigade, 12 tanks from the 4th Royal Tank Regiment… Memoir '44 — Air Pack
Tunisia Scenario#: 3707     Date: 12/1/1942     Location: Tebourba, Tunisia On November 29th and 30th it was tough going for the still largely green Allied Combat Command. The Allies had launched two unsuccessful attacks to take the town of Djedeida and clear a path for the march on Tunis. Then … Memoir '44 — Air Pack