Sunday, October 9, 2016

Wellington (part 4) : Water Loo

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


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!!  

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