Serjeant Munday

Charles Dickens wrote that the guides to the battlefield at Waterloo were not all to be trusted, but one in particular could be relied on for sound historical accuracy: Serjeant Munday. He described him as a man in his sixties, of gentlemanly demeanour, who had nothing but respect for the enemy on that day in 1815.

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