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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
Thread wander- I read somewhere that one of the things which contributed to him loosing the Battle of Waterloo was his piles!
They were so bad he couldn't sit on his horse and being short, when he got off he couldn't oversee the battlefield and his troops.
I wonder which hurt him most- his piles or loosing the battle?
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And happily wandering right along from piles to biorhythms, to kidney stones: Years ago, long before .com, I read a fascinating article on biorhythms in "Scientific American". After looking at Napoleon's bior's for the day of Waterloo, the only conclusion is that he should have stayed in bed, and slept thro' the day. In the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon lll, was in so much pain from kidney stones that he wore rouge to cover the palor ... (or maybe he just liked make up, and possibly the wearing lace panties
). However, it is perhaps interesting (in terms of how far one can wander
) to note that von Blucher seemed to do ok at Waterloo even though he believed he had been impregnated by a French grenadier, and was carrying his child, an elephant
