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Magazine article from: The Spectator THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN: WELLINGTON, HIS GERMAN ALLIES AND THE BATTLES OF LIGNY AND QUATRE BRAS...demanded that `our Waterloo must be one...have doubted his sincerity...into ...

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