La Victoire Est à Nous (Victory Is Ours) - Napoleonic March (Waterloo Soundtrack)

The song La Victoire est à nous, adapted by David Buhl from an aria from an opera by composer André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), La Caravane du Caire, is one of the “hits” of the military bands of the First Empire, executed on many battlefields, especially when entering Moscow on September 14, 1812. It was composed during the French campaign in Egypt and Syria. Born in Liège on February 11, 1741, André Grétry is one of the precursors of French opéra-comique. His performances animated Paris, even during the French Revolution. Much admired by Napoleon, he was among the first to receive the Legion of Honor. That march was used as a soundtrack of movies with the Napoleonic thematic as “Waterloo” and the Russian series of movies “War and Peace”. This video was made with scenes of the movies War an Peace (1956), War and Peace Part I - Andrei Bolkonsky (1966), War and Peace Part III - The Year 1812 (1967), War and Peace Part IV - Pierre Bezukhov (1967), Waterloo (1970), the series Napoleon (2002), the filming of Battle of Waterloo 200th Reenactment and a video of Facebook page “Le Hussard”. The Battle of Waterloo 200th Reenactment:    • Battle of Waterloo 200th Reenactment   The video of “Le Hussard”:   / 1275586709121808