« Reply #5 on: Saturday 27 June 15 00:49 BST (UK) »
There are two bits of trivia that fascinate me regarding Waterloo. The first is more factual than the second.
One of the French cavalry charges went between two farmhouses, but the length of the line want they had to squeeze up to fit between. There were reports that they were so tightly packed the horses in the middle actually lifted off the ground!
The second, possibly more mythic, is Napoleons had piles, and could not sit on his horse overlooking the battle.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)
Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.
