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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.

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.

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.

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.

Serjeant Munday

By William Howitt

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