Gecertificeerd Wellington’s smallest victory : the Duke, the model maker, and the secret of Waterloo – Peter Hofschröer

Peter Hofschröer tells the remarkable story of William Siborne, a Lieutenant in the British Army and expert in topography, who was commissioned to make a vast scale model of Waterloo, incorporating seventy-five thousand tin-lead soldiers and stretching over four hundred square feet. Buy why – at a time when celebrations of England’s finest hour at Waterloo were so in vogue, and Wellington’s fame was at its peak – did this exquisite model gain Siborne the enmity of the Duke and ultimately lead to his own rui…