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A routine but always amusing sight, as all the pedestrians and cyclists yelled "back up" at the vehicle that completely ignored the loud warnings and flashing lights for the LRT. They eventually seemed to notice, too late to back up but with enough time to speed through the intersection out the other side before the train arrived.

#Waterloo #WatReg

Scorecard rates how Waterloo region is keeping up with growth
The Region of Waterloo is growing. Estimates say it will reach one million people in 2050 — and there needs to be planning for that kind of growth. Best Waterloo Region, a coalition of local business organizations, and researchers at the University of Waterloo will be making sure the region stays on track with a new sco...
#growth #planning #business #research #Waterlooregion #Waterloo
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In 2014, Alan Forest (U. York) gave a fine lecture at the University of Massachusetts on the C19 memory of #Waterloo. He claimed Britain acts as if only they & French fought at Waterloo: UK was only nation at Congress of Vienna not to provide full troop quota (see alt text)
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I don't have a lot of #Waterloo stuff lying around--but...

20 March 1815: beginning of the Hundred Days between Napoleon’s return to Paris from exile on Elba and the restoration of the monarchy following his defeat

This well-worn handbill chronicled & celebrated his return
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“The field was so much covered with blood, it appeared as if it had been flooded…”

—in 2023, Prof Tony Pollard brought to light an account of the battle’s immediate aftermath. The Scottish merchant Thomas Ker arrived early enough to see the dead & dying still on the battlefield. The Ker collection, made up of letters & a hand-written book, was donated by his family in 2018 to the University of Glasgow.

gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2

www.gla.ac.ukFirst written account by civilian at the Battle of Waterloo unveiledOver 200 years after the 1815 battle, an account by Thomas Ker, a Scottish merchant living in Brussels at the time, is being published for the first time in honour of his wishes to see his account go into print.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism

theconversation.com/walter-sco

The ConversationWalter Scott war journalism from the Waterloo battlefield
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For the 210th anniversary of the Battle of #Waterloo, here's a portrait of fierce Prussian Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

"very strong and in character as immovable as a rock....jovial if somewhat foulmouthed....his intellect was not the equal of his other talents"