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Killed in Action. Commando Captain Lord Henry Valerian George Wellesley, 31, 6th Duke of Wellington, fifth-generation descendant of Waterloo's victor; in a raid on northeastern Sicily. Army career man, veteran of Ethiopia, he inherited from his father titles that sounded the Napoleonic battle roll, some $1,000,000 in landed estates, the ancestral right of keeping his hat on in the King of Spain's presence...
...Mexican misadventure and the menacing shadow of Prussia were meeting over France. Bazaine's home-coming took place in that gloom. He was almost unnoticed. Nevertheless, he had absorbed certain lessons that were to become a vital part of French military thought. From the story of Waterloo he had learned that a line of resolute men on the defensive could again & again break an enemy attack. From Mexico he had watched Lee's dashing Confederates lose a war despite their commander's brilliance in attack. He had also learned that dramatic sorties were invaluable in North Africa...
There are Grenadier Guards. In 1677 the noisy grenade was introduced into battle and each regiment got a grenadier company of picked men. Gradually the word grenadier became synonymous with elite. At Waterloo the Guards defeated Napoleon's last hope, his Imperial Guard, so decisively that they were awarded the title Grenadiers. At Ypres in 1914, 61 officers and 650 men of the Grenadiers went into action, and four officers and 150 men came...
Elisabet was a grandniece of that intrepid Marshal of Napoleon who led a premature charge at Waterloo and who was known as the Bravest of the Brave. Elisabet herself never did anything but charge, always prematurely. If she was not brave it is because that virtue cannot be ascribed to anyone who has never suspected the existence of fear. She was tall, milk-fleshed, redhaired, chokingly beautiful. She was-she thought-an intense idealist...
When war came, Britons flocked to London's Waterloo Road to have regimental marks or "I Love Flossie Forever" needled into their skins. Air Raid Precaution women wanted ARP on their arms. One ambulance driver selected a bracelet with her name and address...