Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "How Waterloo Unfolded" video.

  1. Wellington played the game of "what if?" and spied out the lay of the land, weeks in advance. Napoleon assumed his rapid advance would catch Wellington's armies by surprise. In reality, Napoleon was marching into a trap which Wellington had set for him. As George Bernard Shaw put it, a Corsican general versus an Irish general.
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  2. Beef guy versus the brandy bloke.
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  3. Always nice to discover the best type of history-nerds on this channel.
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  4. "Va"?
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  5. Yup and "Huzzah!" whilst waving my bearskin above my head.
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