Wellington (part 4) : Water Loo

 Continuing from my previous post and on investigating Arthur Wellington's wiki page, we find his claim to fame:

•  His defeat of Napoléon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 put him in the top rank of Britain's military heroes

Note the "water" in Waterloo, an addition to the recent "O/Eau/Water/October Theme" pattern-cluster. Note from the  Battle of Waterloo's wiki page:

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815 

June 18 is just one off from the date of the very first post to this blog-- June 19, 2012.  This is enough of a heads up... a prompt to investigate the wiki pages of both Arthur and Waterloo.  And what you'll find particularly interesting are the 4 other June 18th, and many other clusters, in the lists provided in the next posts.  In the meantime, here are the 4 June 18  :

• Sir William Ponsonby (13 October 1772 – 18 June 1815) 
• Sir Thomas Picton  (24 August 1758^[1] – 18 June 1815)
• Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry  (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822)
• General Claude-Étienne Michel (3 October 1772 – 18 June 1815)

And that is just the tip of the ice berg!!