Waterloo, Ypres, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Trafalgar.

“Admiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in Trafalgar Square; and even when most obscured by that London smoke, token…

— Herman Melville

I love knowing that if I was dropped off in Trafalgar Square, I could walk in any direction and see something amazing or eat…

— Karren Brady

Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was…

— J. L. Austin

“If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to be…

— Victor Hugo

My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.

— Rush Limbaugh

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

— Wendell Phillips

But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not a historic…

— George Pattison

Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.

— Bruce Catton

“The peculiarity of the Battle of Waterloo was its narrow compass, with 140,000 men crammed into three square miles; the front was only four…

— Frank McLynn

“My home is in Banff, Alberta, up in the Rockies. Waterloo is two time zones east, nine hundred kilometers farther south, and more than…

— James Alan Gardner

The views from Waterloo Bridge are amazing - you can see so much of London.

— Amelia Warner

Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these…

— Helen Fielding

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

— P. G. T. Beauregard

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo?…

— Henry Bromell