Waterloo - by Bernard Cornwell - out now 1/2 price in Smiths

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Waterloo - by Bernard Cornwell - out now  1/2 price in Smiths

[FierceKitty]

Am I alone in suspecting that even the Napoleonic fanatics are going to be sick of the very word Waterloo ere another twelvemonth shall have expired?

[Leman]

Doubt it very much. Last night I drove home through Waterloo (Liverpool) passing Blucher Street and Hougoumont Street. The Waterloo afficionados seem to have thrived on it for the last 199 years.

[fsn]

Blimey! There's brave! Belgium in 1815 was safer than Waterloo (Liverpool) on a Saturday night.

[Leman]

The place was full of French POWs for quite some time.

[WeeWars]

Am I alone in suspecting that even the Napoleonic fanatics are going to be sick of the very word Waterloo ere another twelvemonth shall have expired?

Not before we've had our fill of the word Referendum.

[Bernie]

Doubt it very much. Last night I drove home through Waterloo (Liverpool) passing Blucher Street and Hougoumont Street. The Waterloo afficionados seem to have thrived on it for the last 199 years.

Do not forget the mockup of La Haye Sainte at Potter's Barn in that neck of the woods.

[John Cook]

Am I alone in suspecting that even the Napoleonic fanatics are going to be sick of the very word Waterloo ere another twelvemonth shall have expired?

You got that right.  I've been sick of Waterloo since 1816.

[fsn]

Fie and Tush! 2015 will be the 200th anniversary of Waterloo, the 300th anniversary of the first Jacobite rising, the 600th anniversary of Agincourt and the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

We'll probably be fed a lot about Gallipoli.

[FierceKitty]

Ah, well, where I live nobody's heard of any of those.

[WeeWars]

2015 will be the 200th anniversary of Waterloo, the 300th anniversary of the first Jacobite rising, the 600th anniversary of Agincourt and the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

And the anniversary of the end of the after-Bannockburn party.

[Leman]

And the second anniversary of the after Flodden party.

[Dave Fielder]

"Fie and Tush! 2015 will be the 200th anniversary of Waterloo, the 300th anniversary of the first Jacobite rising, the 600th anniversary of Agincourt and the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta."

So we will ne needing lots more metal then won't we! BTW what happened at Waterloo? I missed that one.

[WeeWars]

BTW what happened at Waterloo? I missed that one.

I missed a train at Waterloo as well.

[Dave Fielder]

That's because you were aiming for an 1809 departure rather than 1815 ....