Note 44 — CYCLOPÆDIA OF THE BATTLES OF THE WORLD. (continued 11)
Reading edition
I cannot conclude this article on Waterloo without inserting the following: Many years ago a prize poem on the Duke of Wellington was announced at one of the English Universities, I forget which. The gainer took for his subject the life of Napoleon, and finished an elaborate description of that great commander, in the following couplet, which gained him the prize:
“So great a man, the world scarce ever knew, Bent to thy Genius, Chief of Waterloo.” J. D. B.