[meteorite-list] Bicentenary of the meteorite of Toulouse

From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:18:27 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <8CEE69BF8CEB118-690-21328_at_webmail-m028.sysops.aol.com>

Hi Anne !

Certainly there was a Battle of Toulouse ... on April 10, 1814 ... and
Napoleon was still in all his splendour in charming Pari; he actually
affirmed his defeat on April 13. So, tomorrow is the 198th anniversary
of this treaty. The fiery tempered ex-emperor was sent home and
arrived in his luxurious banishment island kingdom until May 1814.

Strategically the menace of the troups in South (and everywhere else)
were the meat and potatos on this fine Tolosan landscape that delivered
part of the punch which caused the abdication, and no one knew when the
battle was started that the actual combat was unnecessary, since
communications weren't that fast. But though the battle was
unnecessary, the superior military pressure was the driver.

Battle of Toulouse strategic map:
http://www.miklianmaps.com/rousseau-map-of-the-battle-of-toulouse-1853-p-2111.html

Painting:
http://napoleononline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Battle-of-Toulouse.jpg

Some guy was in Toulouse to videotape the battle ;-)\]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4SPn4kF-A8&t=4m30s

Brief background:
http://www.napoleonguide.com/battle_toulouse.htm

all this, two years to the day - after the meteorite fell there ...

Kindest wishes
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Black <impactika at aol.com>
To: mexicodoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
Sent: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 3:32 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bicentenary of the meteorite of Toulouse


Hhhuuuhhh............


Napoleonic Toulouse 10 April 1812, the British led a force 10 April
1814 in an epic meteoric irradication of Napoleon's empire in a key
battle there

What are you talking about Doug?
?
There is no battle of Toulouse on April 10 1814.
Napoleon abdicated in Fontainebleau on April 7, 1814, so on the 10th he
was on his way to the island of Elba.
The final battle, "key" if you wish, was in Waterloo, in present days
Belgium just outside Bruxelles, on June 18, 1815.?
Goodnight
?

Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com
Vice-President of IMCA
www.IMCA.cc



-----Original Message-----
From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
To: rm31 <rm31 at free.fr>; meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 12:56 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bicentenary of the meteorite of Toulouse


Hello Renaud, and all the kind listers who have been making all sorts
of comments on this thread. I hope the extra publicity gets a few more
motivated to go to the Toulouse exhibit.

There is another odd tie to Toulouse, here in the USA can relate to.
Meteorites seemed to be harbingers of a lot of Napoleons doings.
Precisely two years to the day after the meteoritical fall in
Napoleonic Toulouse 10 April 1812, the British led a force 10 April
1814 in an epic meteoric irradication of Napoleon's empire in a key
battle there. Then those same high-stepping drum beating Brits that
did this had management push its luck straight to American shores
thinking if they could defeat Napoleon, that we would be shoo-fly pie
and apple pan dowdy. Well, unfortunately for them, our gator eaters
avenged Napoleon's last stand here and as the oral history relates the
shameful fate of these would be double conquerers in Napoleon's gift to
Thomas Jefferson:

So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind
Yeah, they ran through the briars
And they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes
Where the rabbit couldn't go

(and rabbits can slip into the worse raspberry & poison ivy patch!)

And thus Napoleon's defeat was avenged hot Jambalaya style ...

OK, that was a great break during this lull, like the eye of a storm I
can feel in my bones a whopper of a meteorite fall is nearing on the
event horizon ...

Couldn't find the article in the 1836 antiquarian journal posted for
the toadstorm but I got lost looking (page #?) - it was the table of
contents that opened and I'm a slow reader ;-(

The jungle story via tropical photos was fun, thanks; and the Frog
festival (which is just a 3-4 hour drive down the highway from here;
comments on eating frogs; forgive me for assuming that in France all
would be eating them fried like us, I see butter and garlic is
preferred by some of our refined listmembers, but in these territories
thanks to the Cajuns we like them fried and eat them with hush puppies
and chitlins, which are misbehaved baby dogs and chitenous aggregations
for those unfamiliar with other delicious exotics we eat down here
(besides alligators and iguanas, which are all subnstituted for chicken
when tourists without their knowledge since you can't tell the
difference)

Since I can't go to France, the whole country is invited to Florida for
some monster escargot that is a traditional Florida dish, only these
snails are as big as human heads (we call 'em conch fritters - of
course fried) and they combine well with Alligator tail steaks.

...and for anyone who would wonder wtf this has with meteorites, beats
me but one hypothesis is that everyone interested in meteorites
expresses a bottled up sense of adventure inside, just waiting to
explode out. When we look at meteorites, it is to experience through
the senses first hand the different flavors developed in the Solar
crockpot. We chase a meteorite fall, whether with boots on the ground
or a silver pick on eBay; it is that same emotion of seeking out what
is different, whether it be a kolache, boudin ball, haggis (which I
understand are little burrowing animals the Scots turn inside out and
eat raw according to a bonnie Scottish lassie), Cui, and all kinds of
interesting stuff.

Have a great time in Toulouse to all at the exhibit and thanks for the
first link!

Kindest wishes
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: rm31 <rm31 at free.fr>
To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 10:47 am
Subject: [meteorite-list] Bicentenary of the meteorite of Toulouse


Hi List,

First pictures and links to local tv news here:

http://meteorites.superforum.fr/t4834p15-exposition-bicentenaire-de-chute-de-la-meteorite-de-toulouse

More to come!

Renaud

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