Well, it wasn't Marengo (he made a hash out of that one!) or Leipzig 😛, or any of the 1814 battles... He knew what he was doing at Rivoli so I'd say that's his best defensive battle.

"Smart move" has nothing to do with with power politics.

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Not to one up you... But I grew up in Arkansas and saw a lot of friends graduate and go into Walmart management. Completely exploitative. When Walmart moved into the town where my father-in-law had a five and dime; it closed a year later. Capitalism. 🤷‍♂️

I haven't shopped in Walmart in decades.

were destroyed). In the EU member countries can mint a commemorative coin in any denomination they want but that coin is only legal tender in Belgium. The Belgians minted 70,000 of the €2.5 Waterloo coin.

ALL of my friends were reading it back in the day. I tried. . . . It just didn't land for me.

I will offer this in my defense: I am a huge Tolkien enthusiast. 😊

Ah! Well, thank you for thinking of me but honestly, even with the world's most powerful electron microscope, I could not find my interest in reading science fiction. 😛

I have not. I'm not entirely sure what it is. 😛

Always snapping defeat from the jaws of victory. . . .

I confess I was so displeased with the first Hobbit movie that I didn't watch the other two. 😬 Not only was the first movie boring, it made too many deviations from the original. I suppose I'm too loyal to the original Tolkien stories/world to tolerate wide "adaptations."

Of the movies? Definitely NOT a fan. Of the book? BIG fan of all things Tolkien.

The photographer will win a Pulitzer.