Post by mouse on Jun 19, 2015 6:59:11 GMT -5
some great photos....the French of course are not happy frogs...but that is their problem..they have being trying to get back at us for this and Agincourt and Crecy to name but a few...so far the game is ours...they don't like it upem 
Honouring the battle that made Britain great - no wonder the French are in a sulk! ROBERT HARDMAN watches descendants of the men who fought at Waterloo remember one of history's pivotal battles
Two centuries on from the bloodbath which helped shape the map of the modern world, the eyewitness reports had lost none of their raw intensity yesterday.
Exactly 200 years to the very morning, descendants of the men who fought at Waterloo gathered at St Paul’s Cathedral to invoke the horror, heroism, squalor and humanity of one of history’s pivotal battles.
Beneath sun as bright as on June 18, 1815, St Paul’s was looking stupendous for this national service of commemoration (the media had been specifically told to avoid the word ‘celebration’).
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3130504/ROBERT-HARDMAN-Honouring-battle-Britain-great-no-wonder-French-sulk.html#ixzz3dVZcdFuP
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Honouring the battle that made Britain great - no wonder the French are in a sulk! ROBERT HARDMAN watches descendants of the men who fought at Waterloo remember one of history's pivotal battles
Two centuries on from the bloodbath which helped shape the map of the modern world, the eyewitness reports had lost none of their raw intensity yesterday.
Exactly 200 years to the very morning, descendants of the men who fought at Waterloo gathered at St Paul’s Cathedral to invoke the horror, heroism, squalor and humanity of one of history’s pivotal battles.
Beneath sun as bright as on June 18, 1815, St Paul’s was looking stupendous for this national service of commemoration (the media had been specifically told to avoid the word ‘celebration’).
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3130504/ROBERT-HARDMAN-Honouring-battle-Britain-great-no-wonder-French-sulk.html#ixzz3dVZcdFuP
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