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| Tango01 | 22 Jun 2015 10:51 p.m. PST |
"Two hundred years after Waterloo, one of the most vivid and visceral accounts of the battle is found in the memoirs of a man history seems to have forgotten about. Born in Neath in 1794, Capt Rees Howell Gronow attended Eton and listed amongst his friends: the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, the Duke of Wellington, and the Prince Regent – the future King George IV. Reputedly the second-best shot in the British Army, he was also a socialite dandy, and an inveterate gambler, duellist and womaniser. He bribed his way into parliament and spent time in a debtors prison after losing the first of his two fortunes…"
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