Feb 15
It’s been said that the battle of Waterloo was a ‘near run thing’. This is hardly surprising given the quality of some of the generals involved. You may have read my previous post about dear old, mad, general Erskine but the mind boggles at the shear inadequacy and lunacy of the leaders of men in this particular battle. The Prince of Orange, for example, was a half-wit of the first order. General Blucher, commander of the Prussian army, was a mad old duffer who was under the delusion that he had been made pregnant by a Frenchman and was going to give birth to an elephant. I think it was wind myself.