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Tango0116 Feb 2015 3:53 p.m. PST

"Was the Battle of Waterloo primarily a ‘British' or a ‘Prussian' victory—or a genuinely ‘Allied' one?

Whether holding the "Hot Gates" against the Persians, manning the Alamo in defiance of Santa Anna's massed Mexican troops or repelling waves of Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift, the outnumbered defenders of improvised strongpoints exert a powerful hold on the popular imagination. In "The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo," Brendan Simms recounts another defiant stand, the exploits of a battalion of German soldiers who defended the substantial farmhouse of La Haye Sainte, which bolstered the center of the Duke of Wellington's line during his bloody and decisive encounter with Napoleon…"

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Field Marshal22 Feb 2015 9:03 p.m. PST

Cant beleive this one didnt cause the usual excrement storm!
Pity i cant read the rest of the article.

Tango0122 Feb 2015 9:24 p.m. PST

Why you can't?

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