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...bifocals, Thameside was black with people. Suddenly he sent the little silver Auster hurtling out of the sun, straight for Blackfriars Bridge. Girls screamed, bowler hats ducked, but, with inches to spare, the Mad Major leveled out, missed Blackfriars, and with wheels brushing the water, skimmed upstream towards Waterloo Bridge. Between the water's surface and Waterloo's arches at low tide there is a bare 50 ft. of clearance, but the Mad Major never faltered. Like a darting kingfisher, his Auster shot under Waterloo's central arch. The Mad Major rounded the bend that takes...
Forget Me Not. In Waterloo, Iowa, James J. Cunningham accused his former wife, Donna Maxine Hull, of doing $500 worth of damage to his home by carving her name on two tables, a radio, a piano, a buffet, a bedroom chest, a refrigerator...
...muskets when he did his one-legged heave-ups, he was determined to outlive any other man of his generation and be a second Napoleon. Not that he approved entirely of Napoleon. Bonaparte, he used to say, "filled himself full of onion soup and brandy before the battle of Waterloo. That fixed him for keeps...
Back with his Princess to the scene of the Battle of Waterloo came Prince Napoleon, 39, great-grandnephew of the Little Corporal, to visit Bonaparte's old farmhouse headquarters. They brought with them a gift for the Belgian Society of Napoleonic Studies: a pennon of the Imperial Guard, carried from the battlefield 138 years...
...nothing but to make Elba "an island Athens," and "die peaceful and happy" there. "The charge is not that one man, through wild ambition, would not accept defeat. It is that the many, having no magnanimity, were unfit for victory." The book ends with Napoleon on his way to Waterloo, a battle Herbert clearly considers one of the most unnecessary ever fought...