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| Tango01 | 25 May 2015 12:47 p.m. PST |
… skull of Wellington's bravest soldier and Napoleon's breakfast plate extraordinary objects from the battle. "Just weeks after the Duke of Wellington beat the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, there was a thriving trade in anything connected with the battle.
Travel agents were organising tours of the battlefield in Belgium, and swords, musket balls and other relics were eagerly snapped up for the proliferation of small Waterloo museums that sprung up around Britain. So it was that the momentous victory that broke French dominance in Europe and established Britain as a world power was celebrated with a profusion of mementos.
Here, in the second part of our fantastic series, we dip again into Waterloo In 100 Objects, a fascinating new book by Gareth Glover, for more of the bizarre off-cuts of history that bring this world-changing battle scintillatingly back to life…"
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