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Born_A_Truman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 11:40 PM
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Obama's Waterloo turned out to be GOP's BooHoo!
They underestimate this president at their peril.

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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 11:52 PM
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1. It was Waterloo alright..only
Edited on Mon Mar-22-10 12:07 AM by Cha
the gops were Napoleon and Pres Obama was Wellington:patriot:

<snip>

Turning his main strength towards the British, Bonaparte detached Grouchy to keep the Prussians retreating and away from Wellington near Waterloo.

The emperor found the Anglo-Allied drawn up across a small ridge at Mont St John, just south of the village of Waterloo, and organised his troops for battle the next day as a massive storm drenched the ground.

At dawn it was decided the ground was too boggy to launch an immediate attack and so the armies faced off against each other."

<snip>

"In one final attempt to deal with Wellington, Bonaparte threw his undefeated veterans at the recalcitrant thin red line, which buckled under the strain.

The moment of victory was at hand when upon Wellington's command, 1500 Guardsmen stood immediately in front of their French counterparts and stopped the advance with a withering point-blank series of volleys."

The Chasseurs of the Guard finally reeled away in disorder and the sight of their retreat sent panic through Bonaparte's ranks.

The disintegration of a once-proud army into a mass of panicking men took place almost within a blink of an eye and Bonaparte's dreams, and reputation, lay shattered."


<The rest is history>
http://www.napoleonguide.com/battle_waterloo.htm

Very costly in blood when Napoleon met his Waterloo.




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/21/848797/-Waterloo!
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-22-10 07:26 PM
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2. It was really special ~
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