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I intend to do just that. The book I read has really whetted my appetite. I remember many years ago getting a ladybird book out of the library describing his great retreat from Russia with quite horrific pics for an 8yr old !! I did A level history but sadly never touched on Napoleon. Plenty of...

No-one, least of all Cameron expected a Conservative majority, he had no idea that he wouldn't be able to jettison most of this, including the referendum itself, in the expected coalition negotiations

I must confess Napoleon's early campaigns are a bit of a blank spot in my historical knowledge so I certainly defer to you. Just read a great book about Waterloo recently which I hadn't really looked at in depth before. Interesting though then how he went from being very popular across the...

That's a big swing on the previous poll. Wonder if Cameron may have won the battle, but lost the war

Probably didn't make myself clear !! I did mean Napoleons second coming, and Waterloo. Wellington led the Anglo-Dutch forces, and Blucher the Prussians, who, after suffering a defeat, fortunately came again late in the day and turned the tide. Austria and Russia weren't there because Napoleon...

We would never have defeated Napoleon without Prussia and the Dutch. Austria and Russia were mobilising against him as well. Napoleons France was the odd one out in those days !!

Still on the fence. Immigration is a massive issue, but we don't seem to do much to control the immigration we do have control over, let alone what we don't. Primacy of our parliament is also important, but our politicians of all persuasions have screwed up plenty of times in recent years, with...