Lonnie kind of screewed it all up. In the version I remember it was "Blooming British" but the Colonel was Packenham.

Another interesting thing is that the British didn't send Wellington but sent his brother-in-law instead. Wellington of course was a master at choosing where to fight his battles and was also good at an organized retreat. It is unlikely that he would have been ambushed if the first place and equally unlikely that he would have been a routed.

The reason they didn't send him was that he was Pro-American which was quite unusual in those days.
I like to think that he had the foresight to realize what a good ally America was going to be in the future.