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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.

Trunk and Disorderly

By Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley watches on as one of his soldiers is rescued from a watery grave.

Wellington’s Secret

By Samuel Smiles

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