This was on the HaT forum today- my mate Steve at work put it on. Made me laugh my head off! We both have ample respect for all the allied forces of both sides so please don't take any offence, but it was a tongue in cheek conclusion to revisionists history!
Really Adam, you should know by now....
The victory at Waterloo had nothing to do Wellington or the British Army; it was:
The Dutch
The Belgians
The Prussians
The Hannoverian Militia
The duke of cumberland’s Hussars
The Brunswickers looking so dashing in black
The weather
The mud
Murat’s treachery
The absence of Davout
Berthier’s suicide
Ney’s over enthusiasm
Napoleon’s bottom
And, perhaps, most critically, only a small proportion of the Old Guard had enough hairy hats to go round.
Indeed, new research on the most accurate (apparently Italian) source to come to light actually suggests that Wellington and the entire British Army routed from Quatre Bras, spending the 18th at an 18-30 holiday camp in Ibiza and their whole involvement at Waterloo was made up in order to get more money for the film rights and sell more plastic soldiers in the English-speaking world. Indeed, Blucher suggested ‘La Belle Alliance’ merely to circumvent copyright.
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