Waterloo

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• 3/12/2023
  

  How The Irish Saved Wellington at Waterloo

  by Brendan Farrell

  For centuries, the Irish provided manpower to the British military, never more notably than on June 18, 1815. 

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• 6/19/2022
  

  Clearing the Name of a Horse Blamed for Near-Defeat at Waterloo

  by Stephen Dando-Collins

  A failed cavalry attack nearly doomed Wellington at Waterloo. For years, Major General William Ponsonby's Irish horse was blamed to deflect from the tactical mistakes of human officers. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  9-5-18
  

  Can Napoleon’s Defeat at Waterloo Be Traced to a Volcanic Eruption in Indonesia?

  A new study posits that an 1815 eruption caused inclement weather that, according to some theories, led to Napoleon’s defeat.

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• SOURCE: KPBS
  6-20-15
  

  At Waterloo Re-Enactment, History So Real You Can Taste It

  With 6,000 people dressed in period costumes wandering around the countryside near Waterloo, there were bound to be a few interesting incidents.

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• 6-18-15
  

  Did Waterloo Really Matter?

  by Mark Jarrett

  It did. Here’s why.

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• 6-18-15
  

  We’re Remembering Napoleon’s Failure at Waterloo this Week. Here’s Another.

  by Katherine B. Aaslestad

  Unable to defeat Great Britain on the high seas, new research shows that he tried and failed to win by sabotaging Britain’s economy.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-9-15
  

  Belgium Commemorates Waterloo With a Coin, and France Is Not Pleased

  This week, Belgium decided to circumvent French resistance by invoking a little-known European Union rule that allows countries to issue euro coins of their choice, provided they are in an irregular denomination.

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• SOURCE: Press Release
  6-9-15
  

  Video game maker recreates the Battle of Waterloo

  Scourge of War: Waterloo, a Real-time strategic game for PC is the most detailed game about the final battle of the War of the Seventh Coalition. The game boasts 20 historical scenarios (from the French, Prussian and British perspectives).

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  6-5-15
  

  Here Comes Waterloo!

  Britain has got Waterloo fever. With the anniversary coming on June 18, documentaries are presenting Wellington, the Iron Duke, as more malleable than first appears, and lauding Napoleon as a hero, rather than as the megalomaniac “Boney.”

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• 6-9-15
  

  Why It’s Time to Remember Waterloo for a Different Reason

  by Christine Haynes

  The battle deserves to be celebrated not as the end of the first “total war,” but as the beginning of a “total peace.”

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• 6-7-15
  

  Just What Exactly Are People Commemorating on the 200th Anniversary of Waterloo?

  by Alan Forrest

  For each of the nations present on the battlefield Waterloo had a different resonance.

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• SOURCE: Spectator
  5-10-14
  

  Chancellor of the Exchequer rallying to save Waterloo battlefield

  When Osborne heard that the crucifix had recently been stolen from the chapel in which the besieged soldiers had prayed, he decided that the rescue effort needed to be stepped up.

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  8-2-13
  

  Rescuing the farm where Wellington won the battle of Waterloo

  In an isolated corner of bucolic Belgium, down a dusty track that cuts through great fields of lettuce and shivering wheat, stands the farm that won Waterloo. Of the 170,000 people who visit the battlefield each year, few find their way to this particular spot. Fat wood pigeons coo undisturbed from the crumbling walls. The view across the miles of rolling fields over which Napoleon launched waves of attacks, is unspoilt by any building. The only sound of modern life is the faint roar of a motorway, hidden by a bank of trees.Hougoumont is largely unchanged from where, on Sunday June 18, 1815, it was the centre of action throughout the Battle of Waterloo. Of the tens of thousands who died that day, 6,500 men were killed, or suffered terrible injuries, at Hougoumont. Many were dumped in a mass grave there to deter thieves....