"Spies And Sabres: How Wellington Won At Salamanca" Topic
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| Tango01 | 17 Jan 2020 12:44 p.m. PST |
"It was June 1812, and the numbers were part of a military encryption system devised by the French. Mark Urban reveals in the Guardian that the last part of this system was being painstakingly analysed one night that summer to tease out those parts which had so far remained elusive. The eyes peering in the flickering candlelight belonged to Major George Scovell, an officer of the British army's Intelligence Branch and codebreaker for Arthur Wellesley, aka the ‘Iron' Duke of Wellington…"
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| 42flanker | 18 Jan 2020 8:43 a.m. PST |
Not that Wellington was dubbed the 'Iron Duke' until a good few years later circa 1830, long after he left the Peninsula. |
| Tango01 | 18 Jan 2020 12:03 p.m. PST |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
