{"id":17542,"date":"2015-06-18T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T08:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17542"},"modified":"2015-06-18T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T08:21:55","slug":"200th-anniversary-of-the-battle-of-waterloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17542","title":{"rendered":"200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 200th anniversary of the defeat of the Emperor Napoleon by the Duke of Wellington in the bloody Battle of Waterloo. I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17394\">a blog posting<\/a> a couple of weeks ago in which I explained that we would be hearing more about this conflict and today the &#8220;Mirror newspaper has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/200-years-after-waterloo---5902523\">a short, but informative, article<\/a> by historian \u00a0and former television presenter Peter Snow.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on BBC2 television, we are two-thirds of the way through a three-part series on Napoleon written and presented by the Right-wing historian Andrew Roberts. He is presenting a very revisionist view of the Frenchman as a noble and progressive leader.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly Napoleon was a brilliant military commander and introduced long-lasting legal and administrative reforms to France, but he was a despot and a megalomanic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 200th anniversary of the defeat of the Emperor Napoleon by the Duke of Wellington in the bloody Battle of Waterloo. I did a blog posting a couple of weeks ago in which I explained that we would be hearing more about this conflict and today the &#8220;Mirror newspaper has a short, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17544,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions\/17544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}