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French Revolution?

Katie Ford

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I feel that I must have been a French soldier, possibly in the French Revolution. I had a dream a couple of months ago, which was my first ever vision into a previous life. I was in a war. The side I was on was wearing red and white uniforms, with black hats. The opposing side was wearing sky blue and white uniforms. We were in a battle on top of a hill, the grass was a very healthy green, and behind the opposing forces, I couild see trees. Our captain, sitting a top his horse, was situated so that we surrounded him. I was in the front lines. Our captain gave orders for us to fire. The other side pretty much wiped us out. I saw them shoot one guy in the chest, and I saw as he fell off his horse and die. After a few minutes, our captain shouted for all of us to get down. While on the ground, I could feel the blood from the person behind me land on my cheek after he was shot. Just then they fired several bullets into my head, resulting in my death. When I woke up, I was sweating a little, and there was a sensation in the back of my head, as if blood was coming out, and there was pain in the bumps I have on the top and sides of my head, and they are situated exactly where the enemy's bullets hit. I have browsed some sites looking to find what the battle was, and who these opposing forces were, but couldn't find anything. I did get feelings from a picture that I saw that was similar to the one in my dream.
 
it might of been the french revolution. but u was not french.. you could of been the prussians. the prussians was getting slaughtered by the french. as well the germans were. but in my opinion the unbiform looks prussian with the Black hat. because the french had a blue and white uniform. with french charging with calvary breaking up prussian lines. this is how the french won many battles.
 
You could also have been English. The english had red and white uniforms with black hats also..... And The English and the french were slaughtering eachother alot over the centuries.

During the french Revolution, the peasants didn't have uniforms and as far as i know they didnt have real BATTLES, they just decapitated a lot of aristocrats and shot alot of people.

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"Most of the time we start to cry before we feel the pain"-White Rose



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I feel it could have been the American Revolution from your description.IT was similar to the american revolution but I think it was more revolts and local violence than an actual war.A revolution simply means a change though most dramatic change most often comes from war unfortunately.
 
Zeta,
In the American Revolution the Americans didn't have pretty blue uniforms....they were basically a rag tag group of farmers and traders and craftsmen who picked up guns, no real army at all.
This sounds more like a true battle.
catseye
 
yes excatly it was a major battle. more like a skirmirsh battle which prussians always did with the british. but i still believe it was prussians
 
Thanks for the replies, everyone. At first I did think it was a war between Britain and France, like the Seven Years War, but then I thought differntly. It makes sense though. I've always liked Britain, and two of my favorite authurs are British. Also, I can understand what my British friends are saying when they mention things that have different meanings there than in America, and I also understand the original transcripts of Shakespeare, even though my classmates never did.
 
ya Napoleon ruled. lol he was one of my greatest generals. u noticed all the great generals are mainly all crazy.. lol adolf hitler, sadamm hussien.. not really a general but still. Napoleon who elese could take on 4 nations at a time with no support?
 
Perhaps you were a British soldier fighting against napoleon's army.If you were alive then you probably also lived through the french revolution.Your probably feeling that general time period.I'm not sure if napoleon fought the british though.Most people fighting in revolutions are usually angry peasants and not trained soldiers.
 
no napoleon was fighting the british. remember waterloo?? against wellington? who defeated napoleon on the openland skirmirsh ground which british were good in. and british and the prussians fought side by side together at waterloo. i still believe u was a prussian
 
Well, the uniform description certainly checks out.

The only thing I might add is that your description more closely relates to the Napoleonic War then it does the "French Revolution". Napoleon was a simple artillery gunner for the French Army during the Revolution, the British army didn't engage the french at this time.

Could you describe your hat more closely?

The description of the enemy forces also matches. The French Infantry wore blue uniforms with a white crest.

My father and I also lived during this period. He was a dragoon and had his left arm chopped off resulting in his death, and I was a British Regular. In this life he was forced to have surgery to staple the tendons in his left shoulder togetheras they had been ripped from dislocation so frequently.
 
The first link to the French hats *the once with a tricoloren rosett on it* were just like the once worn by my "general" in my dream. But he didnt have the rosett though, or I didnt see him from that side. I cant remember, but I remember the bajonettes etc. Mabe I just remember the dream as red and mixed up the colors of the clothes, I dont know, weird anyway...



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Marlean
 
Hi Katie,


It's been a few years since you posted this - I'm curious if you've had anything else come up about this life you could share?


Ailish
 
Its been a few years since I've posted on this as well :)


In those years I've spent quite a lot of time learning about this period as I believe it has relevance to my life as well.


One thing I didn't catch when I first read this a few years ago that I noticed this time was her order to "get down". It seems ordinary enough today; you're shot at = get down. This isn't how it worked during the Napoleonic Wars, or any battle involving this time frame. Remember, the tactics at this time was, basically, groups and groups of line formations. Nevertheless there were times where your officer would tell you to "get down":


1. A calvary attack provided you served in a skirmisher role and had a solid line behind you (the horses have the natural instinct to jump over despite their rider's commands),


2. A Cannon barrage. These weren't like the movies, they were mostly large bowling ball sized balls of lead. They didn't explode, they bounced, and took off any body part in the way. Laying down minimizing the danger.


3. Again in a skirmish role, your objective is to move ahead of the main force in loose formation and annoy the enemy forces while drawing fire...You shoot, draw fire, lay down, and the main line behind you fires.


I think I touched on the uniform colours she mentioned a few years ago. British soldiers wore predominately red and white uniforms (this could actually serve as a dating point if she recalled wearing white pants with a red and white "jacket" as the pants were changed to grey in 1815). The majority of British soldiers, the enlisted, wore a red coat with white sewn on lacing....the area around the buttons was coloured differently depending on the regiment, but the lacing sewn into the coat itself was white. They wore black hats.


Her description of the battle scene screams Waterloo to me. The British were situated on top of a hill with a clean field in front of them, a small knot of farms to their forward right, with the French wearing those sky blue & white uniforms standing in front of them with a forest behind them...just as she described.


She either watched a movie more historically accurate than any that has been produced, read a detailed book on the subject, or was remembering something during a dream that gave her personal insight into this event.


I'm convinced it was Waterloo, and I'm not easily convinced. Her description of the field, uniforms and tactics match. Napoleon opened the fight with a killer artillery barrage. Wellington held his troops slightly behind the wall of the ridge and had most of them lay down for over an hour until the barrage subsided. This was the decision that allowed Wellington to later hold out until the Prussians arrived during the pitched battle....an event I'm sure any soldier serving under Wellington during the exchange would recall as the decision that ended Napoleon's empire.
 
Thanks Peter, interesting read!! We're told, in family lore, that my great-grandfather was involved in those events as a personal body guard to Napoleon. These threads always grab my attention.


Tman
 
Waterloo or not


Thanks, Peter. I'm still not really sure myself. I'm pretty sure I did have a military past life at some point in the last 200+ years, but am not exactly sure when.
 
Peter, thanks for the great info!


I don't know much about warfare in that era, but I've become fascinated after hearing about the cantinières -- do you know of any good sources on them or other camp followers of the period? I'm not sure if there's any past-life connection, though a possible PL seems to have lived into the early part of Empire.


The only other part of the Napoleonic Wars that draws resonance is the horrific mess that was Spain. Of course that could be bleed-through from a possible 1930s PL, and more than a few parallels with the current war in Iraq...
 
Is this for all to recount French-Revolution past incarnations? :)
 
It is, thanks for resurrecting the thread.


I'm dealing with some anger issues in this life that may have some connection to a past life in this period. I may particularly connect as I was also female in that life and a lot of rage I had was due to sexism. (There was a very early women's movement at the time, but it was crushed during the Terror.)


One problem is, I'm also a writer and after working on a novel very very loosely based on what may have been that life, I'm not sure how much are memories or imagination.
 
I had a life during the French Revolution. I was an aristocrat who was sent to the guillotine. My feelings are that I believed the principles of the Enlightenment and favored a constitutional monarchy. Unfortunately that was not how it ended up. I was very much against the radicals of the revolution.


At the end of this past semester and at the begining of this semester we've discussed the French Revolution in my classes. It has stirred a lot of emotions in me. I find myself sitting in class getting upset as they talk about Danton and Robespierre who were the leaders of the radicals.


Wyldcat, I assume you are referring to being a follower of Olympe de Gouges. She wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women, but she and her followers were ultimately arrested and sent to the guillotine.
 
Truthseeker, I think looked up to Olympe de Gouges, but she was from a more moderate faction. The Girondins suffered terribly, with the guillotine settling disputes that really should have been worked out democratically. But then again France was at war with pretty much the whole rest of Europe, and you had the Austrians in particular making genocidal threats like the Brunswick decree. So it was ugly all the way round.


I think I may have been a follower of Claire Lacombe and Pauline Leon, and may have been one of Lacombe's personal friends. That may have meant involvement with the theater but I'm not sure. Both of them and many of their followers were imprisoned during in 1794 and held for several months after the Terror. I have a feeling that I survived, but may have been better off if I hadn't. I think I had massive survivor guilt and depression, on top of alcoholism that may have caused my death.
 
It was an awful time. It was already bad enough but being at war made matters much worse. Having to fight a war greatly drained the already limited resources to police from within, so their solution was to execute everyone who they perceived to be a threat.


By the time the Terror swept the country I had already been executed. I'm actually glad I was. Even if I had been lucky enough to survive the Terror I probably would have ended up serving in Napoleon's army.
 
I wonder if it's possible that I met you during that lifetime, Truthseeker. I'm pretty sure I knew plenty of French aristocrats during *some* lifetime (just not sure which! :freak:)


If I was actually John Paul Jones I died in Paris in 1792, just before the worst of the revolution. Paul Jones was naturally on the side of the "moderate" revolutionaries in the beginning (though the court of King Louis XVI had been instrumental in helping the Americans), but when things started getting ugly I imagine he started having second thoughts. Even Thomas Paine was attacked by the hard-core revolutionaries for being too moderate.
 
Hi Jody. I don't know if I knew you but I can't say it's not possible. I don't think that I was opposed to changes but I did support the king and queen. I did not want to abolish the monarchy.
 
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