And in this second case there were other elements that were yet more strangely symbolic.

That doubtful and double battle before Waterloo was like the dual personality in a dream.

It corresponded curiously to the double mind of the Englishman.

We connect Quatre Bras with things romantically English to the verge of sentimentalism, with Byron and "The Black Brunswicker." We naturally sympathise with Wellington against Ney.

We do not sympathise, and even then we did not really sympathise, with Blucher against Napoleon.
Germany has complained that we passed over lightly the presence of Prussians at the decisive action.