The Road to Brussels
“History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It
teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences
of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover
for itself what situations are in fact comparable.”
“Along the road from Ohain to Braine-l’Alleud that hemmed
in the plain of Mont-St-Jean and cut at right angles the road to Brussels,
which the Emperor wished to take, he [Wellington] had placed 67,000 men and 184 cannons.” – Fr. Libert, Waterloo
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“Les livres d’histoire et la vie
racontent la même comédie…
Wa wa wa wa Waterloo;
il est arrivé mon Waterloo.”
– Dominique de Villepin