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* '''Hugo:''' Victor Hugo, the French novelist who included a lengthy discussion of #waterloo in ''Les Miserables''
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* '''Hugo:''' Victor Hugo, the French novelist who included a lengthy discussion of Waterloo in ''Les Miserables''

Revision as of 06:21, 5 October 2010

  • Lieber Arthur. Wir siegen! Wie geht's deiner kleinen Frau? Hochachtung: (German) Dear Arthur. We conquer! How's your little wife? Yours faithfully
  • liberator → the Liberator was a nickname for Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Catholic statesman whose election to the House of Commons forced the Duke of Wellington – the then Prime Minister of Great Britain – to introduce Catholic Emancipation in 1829
  • Orthez: a town in southwestern France → the Battle of Orthez, 27 February 1814, in which Wellington defeated Soult
  • versiegen: (German) to dry up → irrigate → the abating of the Flood which ends FW → the drying up of the battlefield at Waterloo following the early-morning rain which crucially delayed the start of the battle
  • fear
  • fear: (Irish) man
  • sicken
  • fieldglass: a binocular telescope for use in the field
  • frow: (1) a Dutchwoman; (2) a woman, lady, wife, especially a Dutch or German one; (3) applied to the Maenads or Bacchantes of paganism; (4) (dialect) an idle, dirty woman
  • hoogachtend: (Dutch) yours faithfully
  • Hugo: Victor Hugo, the French novelist who included a lengthy discussion of Waterloo in Les Miserables