Jacques wrote,

Thank you Richard for defending His genius.
I am living 15 km from the battle field of Waterloo and what is funny is
that we celebrate Napoléon, not Wellington. The duke of Wellington was the
winner but is rather forgotten. His museum there is as big as a coffee shop
while Napoléon is displayed everywhere. Maybe because we never forgot that
we were french before 1815. Now there is a lion in bronze made of gun-metal
on a 45m hill at this place (but nobody is allowed to attach a G5RV on the
top, ... on day I will try to find the frequency of resonance of the lion
itself).

The only thing I would like to add is that we are to-day (december 20th) the
200th anniversary of the sale of the french Louisina by Napoléon to the
United States of America. USA added 12 states and increased their surface by
a factor of 2 in one hit of magic wand. It was the first step of the
westward expansion. The price was not that high as USA paid only 400 million
dollars (of to-day). Napoléon estimated he couldn't afford to maintain
troops there and to administrate the country. So he decided to sell this
area to Americans by friendship instead of being forced to give it for free
to UK. This permitted to Americans not being surrounded by British troops.

Have a nice Christmas.

73 de Jacques - ON5MJ


Wellington didn't win that battle, Blücher did. According to Victor Hugo,
Wellington even had the gall to criticize the quality of his own troops
afterward.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH