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Anna's Thinking Cap: The Battle of Waterloo and its historical and literary aftermath
The battle death of one of the main characters ... “Looked at from the point of view of its immediate aftermath, Waterloo is meant to be a counter-revolutionary victory. It is Europe against ...
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The Waterloo Campaign, 1815, continued
His battle plan was simple. Wellington’s men occupied the outlying farm buildings on both flanks, and the crest of a ridge in the center near the village of Waterloo. To break them, Napoleon ...
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Battle of Waterloo: Excavation unearths amputated limbs
Four human bones have been unearthed on the dig so far Human leg bones have been unearthed in the first excavation of the main allied field hospital used in the 1815 Battle of Waterloo.
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A Biologist Tells The Story Of Earth’s Deadliest Volcano—And The Literary ‘Masterpiece’ That Ensued
The aftermath plunged the world into what is ... into one of history’s most pivotal battles—the hard-fought battle at Waterloo. Two months after Tambora’s eruption, Napoleon Bonaparte ...