Battlefield day

You show a photograph of the re-enactment of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June). The text below the picture states it is “the famous confrontation which took place on 17 June, 1815”.

No it didn’t. It took place on 18 June. I probably would not have sent this e-mail had it not been for an earlier irritation when the elaborate puppet horse from War Horse that appeared on top of the National Theatre during the Jubilee celebrations was described as a “pantomime horse” last week.

D B Fisher

Findhorn Place

Edinburgh

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