Ill
Waterloo
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- The suggestion is often made that the French lost the battle at Waterloo only because Napoleon was ill with piles (or some other complaint).
Source: Worf Had the Flu -
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Reyher, the son of a cantor, first was a simple foot soldier, served as a sergeant in Ferdinand von Schill's ill-fated rebellion in 1809, passed his officer's exam in 1810 and rose to the rank of major after the battle of Waterloo.
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