Tambora and Napoleon's End
French novelist Victor Hugo blamed the weather for sealing Europe's fate. If it had not rained on the night of June 17, 1815, he argued, Europe would have been different. Just a few raindrops, he wrote in the third chapter of Les Miserables, cemented Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Waterloo.
The aberrant rainfall has become a popular explanation for Napoleon's defeat at the hands of coalition troops under the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard von Blcher.
April 7, 2015
French novelist Victor Hugo blamed the weather for sealing Europe's fate. If it had not rained on the night of June 17, 1815, he argued, Europe would have been different. Just a few raindrops, he wrote in the third chapter of Les Miserables, cemented Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Waterloo.
The aberrant rainfall has become a popular explanation for Napoleon's defeat at the hands of coalition troops under the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard von Bl
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