Do not let the French fool you. Waterloo was a victory for the Allied armies, commanded by the Duke of Wellington and the Prussians, commanded by Marshal Blücher. Furthermore, the defeat was catastrophic for France as, indeed, Napoleon's victorious and not so victorious wars had been. It was the end of France as a great power and even the attempt to create a European Union on French lines is not turning out to be the success it had been hoped for. Well, not for France.
Napoleon forgot Blucher. i forgot Goschen.
ReplyDeleteIn many ways a very foolish man, Lord Randolph Churchill. Though I do not think he would have referred to himself in the lower case.
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