"THE CAMPAIGN OF WATERLOO."1
THE battle of Waterloo has been presented to the countrymen of the combatants under an immense variety of forms. The field has been minutely laid down on maps, visited by crowned heads, overrun by crowds of tourists, and even excavated to form a monument for those who, to say the least of them, &quo...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Gentleman's magazine 1894-03, Vol.276 (1959), p.251-268 |
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Sprache: | eng |
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Zusammenfassung: | THE battle of Waterloo has been presented to the countrymen of the combatants under an immense variety of forms. The field has been minutely laid down on maps, visited by crowned heads, overrun by crowds of tourists, and even excavated to form a monument for those who, to say the least of them, "lived to fight another day." The battle itself has been painted, modelled, made the subject of panoramas, described, criticised, commemorated in bridges and squares, and vulgarised in railway stations. |
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ISSN: | 2043-3026 |