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To: Fiji Hill
Unfortunately, Napoleon met his Waterloo--and that resulted in Bonaparte's Retreat.

As well as a hit song for ABBA.

36 posted on 03/27/2012 2:55:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: dfwgator
ABBA's version of Waterloo is a far, far cry from Stonewall Jackson's.

Bonaparte's Retreat, referenced in Jackson's opus, is a nineteenth-century fiddle tune that composer Aaron Copland incorporated into his 1942 composition "Hoedown." Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys had a hit version of Bonaparte's Retreat in 1950.

39 posted on 03/27/2012 3:37:21 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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