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From: dbrown@watarts.UUCP (Dave Brown)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: DeGaulle and the French
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 14:45:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 14:45:32 1985
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I'm not sure if this belongs on net.politics, but someone mentioned
the great numerical advantage of the Anglo-Dutch-Prussian alliance
against Napoleon at Waterloo. I must hasten, for the sake of 
historical accuracy, to say the French had the Prussians and the
forces under Wellington split. The real failure was not Napoleon's
at all, but Marshall Ney, who while his Emperor was sick,
ordered an ill-fated cavalry charge right into the teeth of
the British Infantry.  Needless to say, Napoleon was not amused.

			DAVE BROWN

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