The myth and memory of Waterloo
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The Prussian Response to the Battle of Wellington
There was a sense that people weren't sort of downplaying the role of the Prussians. Was that a deliberate ploy from the start? Were people looking to big up the British side of things? The crucial thing you have to remember about Prussia and sort of Germanic history is that Waterloo isn't their big battle. Their big battle is Leipzig, because Leipzig is the one that liberates Prussia from Napoleonic control.
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