As you can see from the chart below, we are starting to make a small impact on the interweb with some 50 vists form around the world. To be fair, we dont count Belgium as that is almost certainly the two of us checking for ourselves while resting in Waterloo.
The rolling landscape of the Waterloo battlefield is quite a surprise as you get closer. At first glance, its hard to imagine how the two armies didnt just flatten each other.
As you get closer the dips and rises emerge from the ground and the explanations for the final various scirmishes becomes clearer.
How the French and English soldiers stood their ground against the mixture of the cavalry charges, infantry volleys and cannon fire is a mystery. What remains today, is of course the victors view with Wellington’s position now turned into the Lion Monument:
The rest, as they say, is just a fun cycle ride and a great lunch:
Trying to say something original here is always tough but here goes:
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