Dear Bernard,

with interest I have read your story about Waterloo twice in succession.

Please allow me to point to the fact that the battle today is called Schlacht von Waterloo in Germany.

The term battle of Belle Alliance may have been in common use for long periods after the event. If you know a person in G. understanding b.of BA without consulting books or Wikipedia you have met somebody with deeper/extended knowledge of German history.

This did not happen with ABBAs song but many years before. Consulting my old history shool book “Zeiten und Menschen 3” on page 1o4/1o5 I found just Schlacht von Waterloo. The copyright of this book is 1968. Unfortunatly there is no poosibility to add a scan of the respective pages, but I am prepared to mail these scans to you if desired.

Best regards from Sauerland/Germany

Anton Boellecke