"Scotland's Waterloo" Topic
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| Tango01 | 31 Aug 2016 11:04 p.m. PST |
"The Scots triumphed at Waterloo – as painters, subjects for painters, diarists, writers and poets. Scotland's Waterloo showcases the different ways that illustrious Scots documented and responded to the battle. Owen Dudley Edwards starts with the painters and their patrons, before moving on to the fascinating eyewitness accounts of Scottish soldiers. He finally introduces the voices of some more famous Scots who experienced the battle first-hand, including Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Dr Robert Knox and Arthur Conan Doyle"
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| Chokidar | 01 Sep 2016 2:08 a.m. PST |
Walter Scott's contribution was somewhat less than compelling.
He decided to write his epic commemoration of the battle for the proceeds to go to the widows and orphans created that day.
In the words of a contemporary wit.. On Waterloo's ensanguined plain,
Full many a gallant man was slain
Fell none from bayonet or cannon shot
Quite so flat as Walter Scott The widows and orphans starved… |
| SJDonovan | 01 Sep 2016 5:01 a.m. PST |
I'd be interested to know how Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle managed to experience the battle 'first-hand'. Maybe they borrowed H. G. Wells's time machine? |
| arthur1815 | 01 Sep 2016 6:15 a.m. PST |
Wasn't Doctor Robert Knox the anatomist who employed Burke and Hare? |
| Tango01 | 01 Sep 2016 10:35 a.m. PST |
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| SJDonovan | 01 Sep 2016 5:12 p.m. PST |
Tango, what exactly are you (smiling) about? Grave robbing, sarcasm or bad poetry? |
| Tango01 | 02 Sep 2016 10:46 a.m. PST |
A little from all of that my friend… (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| arthur1815 | 02 Sep 2016 2:46 p.m. PST |
Burke and Hare didn't rob graves, they murdered people by smothering them, rather than going to the trouble ox digging up recently buried corpses! |
| 42flanker | 05 Sep 2016 7:02 a.m. PST |
I believe they graduated from one to the other, did they not? "Always be closing" That blurb is nonsense though, These people get paid a wage do they? |
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