Word: waterlooed
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...from the North Sea to Russia. There Winston Churchill's great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, won his victories of Ramillies (1706) and Malplaquet (1709). There the French under the great Marshal Saxe defeated the British and the Dutch at Fontenoy in 1745. There Waterloo was fought and Napoleon finally defeated in 1815. The Flanders Plain is protected to the East by the Belgian hills and fortresses of Liege and Namur. It is protected to the northeast by Belgium's new Albert Canal, built as much for defense as for commerce, and beyond that by low-lying...
...famed raid on Zeebrugge failed to rivet up the Bruges Canal, but it showed the world something and left Britain proud. When the diplomats have failed and the smoke gets thick, something happens to the blood of English men of action. Crecy, Blenheim, Waterloo, the Armada, Cape Trafalgar, Jutland have shown that it is not equipment but spirit which wins battles for Britain. It did not matter, therefore, that when King George VI, who personally owns more ships than anyone else in the world,* went out into the fog and drizzle in Weymouth Bay last week, what...
...Duke of Wellington slept in during the Waterloo campaign...
...that ambitious little monarch Henry VIII. The luckless, unpopular Stuarts would have grown green with jealousy had they been able to witness the crowds which last week cheered as King George and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, drove in state from London's stately Buckingham Palace to drab Waterloo Station, there to catch a special boat train for Portsmouth. Almost any of Britain's past crowned heads would have admired the scene at Portsmouth...
...pack of women running after Cinemactor Spencer Tracy on a platform in London's Waterloo Station knocked Arturo Toscanini flat...