Word: waterlooed
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...always been the prerogative of the historian to present facts as they are known and to interpret them as his opinions and affiliations dictate. The English give to the Iron Duke the credit for Waterloo, the Germans acclaim Bluecher, and the French maintain that the battle was not won, that it was only lost. However much written history displeases a nation that considers itself aggrieved, active measures at suppression are rarely taken...
...history of the staging of Greek tragedies goes back to about 1850, when Thomas De Quincey described the first Greek play to be produced in Great Britain as the "next best thing to having seen Waterloo at sunset on the 18th of June...
...Paris without his army. Everyone knows the rest of the story?the coup d' etat . . . imperial crown of golden laurel leaves . . .Austerlitz and "name your children after me" ... a treaty on a raft at Tilsit . . . the comet begins to droop . . . conqueror of a burning Moscow . . . Leipsig and puny Elba . . . Waterloo and hellish St. Helena...
...Each was charged with cowardice for seeking to make his escape. The same people would probably have said the same thing of Napoleon I, when he abandoned his troops in the Russian winter of 1812, or when he took refuge in the arms of England after the loss of Waterloo. It is a matter between these rulers and their conscience whether or not it had been better for Napoleon to have blown his brains out after his defeat by Wellington or for Davis to have done the same when Richmond fell. Brave men rarely question another's courage, particularly...
...tried it perhaps in exactly the method of H Duce. Why he should be more successful than his predecessors in the tyranny trade is a problem for prophets. So far his defeats have been few. In the terms of his patron saint this educational move may be his Waterloo...