article_snippet.sent: If Benny and Bjorn actually laboured under this surrendering misapprehension when Benny and Bjorn wrote Benny and Bjorn song (songwriters are not hot on facts – happy to say anything as long as it rhymes), Benny and Bjorn would have discovered the truth when Benny and Bjorn subsequently paid a visit to the Wellington Museum in Waterloo, just south of Brussels in Belgium.
article_snippet.sent: There was a long day’s fighting on that June day in 1815 and a very shaky start for the UK team, but thanks to some late-arriving Prussian assistance, the boy Wellington eventually done good.
article_snippet.sent: Wellington reflected:
article_snippet.sent: Blucher and I have lost 30,000 men – the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life...’ Unbelievable for me was encountering the present Duke of Wellington in the flesh at Waterloo.
article_snippet.sent: Napoleon was attending the opening ceremony for a new exhibition at the Wellington Museum on the ‘Shared Destinies’ of Wellington and Napoleon, who fought each other often but never met.
article_snippet.sent: At the end of the battle, Lord Uxbridge’s was riding near Wellington when they came under cannon fire.
article_snippet.sent: ’ announced Lord Uxbridge’s, to which Wellington replied:
article_snippet.sent: Lord Uxbridge’s only recorded comment during the operation was: