Word: waterlooed
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...cher was 73 at the Battle of Waterloo, and although his horse had fallen on him and saved him from death at the hands of charging French cavalry two days before at the Battle of Ligny, his determination and activity alone forced the Prussian Corps through the deep mud from Wavre to the relief of Wellington, who must otherwise have been annihilated by Napoleon. This was contrary to the counsel of his brilliant, and far younger, chief of staff, Gneisenau, who urged immediate withdrawal toward Germany...
...shorts, minus his coat and his favorite grey-&-white striped scarf, fled from a field headquarters just in time to avoid capture by British tanks. Arriving at a new base, he cracked (according to Nazi propaganda): "Like Napoleon I lost my equipment but there won't be any Waterloo...
Napoleon lacked two months of being 46 at Waterloo. Wellington had then just passed his 46th birthday...
...Much of London's jumbled railroad system would be moved out to a ring line encircling the city. Within the ring all railroad lines would be electrified and underground. Liverpool Street, Waterloo and London Bridge stations would be moved to the ring. Euston, King's Cross, St. Pancras stations would be amalgamated. Victoria, Paddington, Marylebone would remain where they...
Mother Hugo regarded Waterloo as a personal triumph. So did Victor, but he was already engrossed in literary matters. At 14 he had translated much of Virgil, was composing "poems in every form, odes, satires, elegies." At 15 he carried off one of the French Academy's poetry prizes against the best poets of France. Secretary of the Academy Raynouard sent him "a few hexameters" of praise. King Louis XVIII gave him a purse of 500 francs. The great author and statesman Chateaubriand called him "the sublime child," received young Hugo in his bath, read him "huge sections...