To: ontap
Although apocryphal, this quote attributed to Duke of Wellington is still true:
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
40 posted on
10/26/2014 9:33:46 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
To: ClearCase_guy
I was just thinking of that.
46 posted on
10/26/2014 9:39:41 AM PDT by
mrsmel
(One Who Can See)
To: ClearCase_guy
Eton has a lot of playing fields
54 posted on
10/26/2014 9:46:12 AM PDT by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: ClearCase_guy
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.That sounded all well and good to me when I first read it in high school. Reading more on the Napleonic wars and the Eton of that era made me wonder what the hell the Iron Duke was taking about. Eton was a tiny school and sure as hell didn't turn out the men in the British square. Wellington often referred to his line troops as essentially thugs, not sportsmen. Me thinks there's a newspaper man at the bottom of this.
55 posted on
10/26/2014 9:46:43 AM PDT by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: ClearCase_guy
"The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." Did they have some Prussian players on Wellington's team at Eton?
71 posted on
10/26/2014 10:17:18 AM PDT by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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