Notes and Queries, Vol. 5: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; January June, 1894 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 5: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; January June, 1894

I have read the recent notices of Waterloo with much interest. With regard to what is said at the last reference about the charge of the Guards, I remember going over the field of Waterloo in 1857, under the guidance of Sergeant Mundy (son-in-law and successor of the famous Waterloo guide colour-sergeant Cotton). We had reached the scene of the charge, whereupon the sergeant said, This, ladies and gentlemen, is the place where the great Duke of Wellington is reported to have said - but the great Duke of Wellington was too good a soldier ever to have said - 'up.

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