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Surprising Harvard with the medieval seven-man wedge, Samuel Tech dominated the oval for over three-fourths of the hour, and held the Crimson's famed Waterloo sprint to an embarrassingly scant 12 furlongs...
...Flying Eagle. The Holy Week of which Aragon writes is the chaotic, rain-drenched and rumor-filled week between Palm Sunday and Easter in 1815. Napoleon, having just escaped from Elba, was marching up to Paris to begin the historic Hundred Days, which were to end with Waterloo. And as Napoleon approached-"the Eagle flying from steeple to steeple," rallying to his standard the regiments sent against him-King Louis XVIII, fat and fatuous, was fleeing north toward the Belgian border amid a confusion of loyal musketeers and grenadiers...
...until they got Meade . . . One of the biggest problems was keeping women out of Hooker's camp . . . Kilpatrick sent two brigades of Union cavalry to charge the southern flank, and they were butchered. That cavalry can't charge has been true since Ney tried to win at Waterloo...
...should not judge Britain by the ban-the-bombers, "a few whose minds are as fluffy as their beards." He added: "Do not be misled into thinking us soft. Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers. The memorial to him in London is a railway station called Waterloo. Shopkeepers we may be, but neither our principles nor our alliances are for sale...
Lamb then notes the well-known fact that Arthur Wellesley's real remark was far less martial, and last week Eton's Headmaster, Robert Birley, produced his own version. After Waterloo, according to Birley, Wellington visited his old house at Eton, where boarders in his day had been looked after by a Mrs. Naylor. Asking to see a stream in the garden, the Iron Duke explained : "I really think I learned my spirit of adventure jumping over the big black ditch at the bottom of Mrs. Naylor's garden...