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Tats comments on this history paper -
"I swear to God that I did a different History syllabus - where are the questions on Napoleon I and the causes of the First World War?
And what about (for Napoleon) "the road to Waterloo began at Borodino" Discuss.
Well, if he'd started at Trafalgar Square he'd have caught the 08:22 to Bournemouth no trouble; quick bunk-up with Josephine, sun on the beach and he'd still have thirty minutes to play on the amusements before catching the 18:30 back to London (change at Guildford!)
"The Codes of Napoleon (III) ...the Napoleonic Codes... the Code Napoleon... Napoleon and his Codes" so began Harry Makins's introduction to this riveting period of French History...so riveting in fact that I honestly know not another word on the subject. I must have woken some weeks later when Archduke Rio Ferdinand mistakenly thought that the spherical object thrown in his general direction by Gavrilo Princip was a football, only realising too late as his head parted company with his shoulders (as likewise did his arms, legs, liver and sundry organs) that it was in fact a bomb! This technique was perfected some years later, as sporting historians will tell you, by Harold Larwood on the infamous "Bodyline Tour" of Australia."
