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#130A: Endgame, Part 1

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The Waterloo Diary

In 1957 this diary was exposed as a hoax Created in the late 1800s. A month after Waterloo, a bank employee in Paris wrote an eighth letter that said I'm informed by a commissary white that you have done well And the early information which you had of the victory gained at Waterloo Now to put that in context Fresh evidence has surfaced Which allows us to finally put the story in its proper context Newspapers published in the week of Waterloo make it clear that the first person to bring Authentic news of the victory to Waterloo at Waterloo to London Was not Nathan Rothschild Rather, it was a man named Mr. C of Dover.

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