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COPYRIGHT 2002 American Library Association
Urban, Mark. The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes. Mar. 2002. 384p. illus. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-018891-X). 940.2.
After the decisive Battle of Salamanca in 1812, Arthur Wellesley infamously described his soldiers in the Peninsular War as the "scum of the earth." According to this original history, the duke of Wellington...
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