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Bad Day at Waterloo by Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby

Frederick Ponsonby’s involvement in the Battle of Waterloo began early, and it seemed to him that it went on for ever.

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The Button Man of Waterloo by Benjamin Robert Haydon

Amid all the confusion of the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington spotted a man in civilian clothes riding busily around on a stocky horse.

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The Battle of Waterloo by Clay Lane

The Russians had checked it in the East, but in the West the expansion of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire was far from over.

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Serjeant Munday by William Howitt

William Howitt had some advice for Victorian tourists hoping for an authentic experience at the battlefield of Waterloo.

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Wellington’s Cook by William Howitt

The hero of Waterloo needed all his men to believe in him that day, but none believed in him more than his cook.

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Wellington’s Secret by Samuel Smiles

The future hero of Waterloo dealt with political ambush as comfortably as he dealt with the military kind.