Re: Dave the Gnome's poibt, and the OP, in The Wheels of the World a verse goes Wellington he was a spinning his wheels they were at Waterloo But if Grouchy had never been bribed the French would have split him in two In fact Emanuel de Grouchy was not bribed, and his failure to intervene at a key point in the battle was simply the vagaries of war, but his reputation was destroyed and his career ended. Clearly thr song was written when gis name hadn't yet been cleared or the author didn't believe it.
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