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And the Veterans who helped create Brisbane “I say, Carruthers, don’t trip over that dead French chappie”. Waterloo. As any schoolchild knows, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo in 1815. Well, actually, if the curriculum they study today is anything like the one I passed through, largely unscathed, schoolchildren todayContinue reading “18 June 1815 – the Battle of Waterloo”