Difference between revisions of "Grand Mons Injun"
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Revision as of 08:52, 7 August 2006
- Mont St Jean: a village south of Waterloo and just north of the site of the Battle of Waterloo → Mont St Jean was the name the English army gave to the Battle of Waterloo → Napoleon believed that Mont St Jean was the key to Wellington’s position
- Mons: a city in Belgium close to Waterloo → the Battle of Mons, 23 August 1914, was the first battle of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I
- Injun: (colloquial) American Indian
- engine:' a military machine
