Jacques wrote;


Thanks Tom for this precision. But Blücher has no museum at all in Waterloo.
The only one on the side of the winners, is the one of Wellington. I didn't
know that Wellington criticized his own troops. Victor Hugo was probably the
greatest french writer but he was very much Napoléon minded, so ...
".("Waterloo, morne plaine"). He even called many years later Napoléon III,
"Napoléon-le-petit". Also, sometimes schools are not honnest. Blücher was
prussian and after WW2, when I was at elementary school, it was not well
accepted to dress germans with the clothes of winners.
And I was a bit confused also by the fact that since 1815, Belgium pays a
fee to the family of Wellington (I know it's very few now because the value
of money has dropped but it still exists because there was a signature on a
piece of paper). I sincerely thought that he was the winner, because he
administrated France from 1815 to 1818 during the occupation period.

73 de Jacques - ON5MJ

Blücher arrives in the nick of time and Wellington gets the credit. Oh well,
life
isn't fair. Scientists, mathematicians and others sometimes get shorted by
history because the historians are confused. Some contributors to this
newsgroup
like to complain about Heaviside's treatment by the historians. Just write
something
about "Maxwell's equations" some time and watch what happens.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH