{"id":4202,"date":"2015-10-26T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2015-10-27T11:33:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:33:45","slug":"re-live-a-close-run-thing-at-horsington-church-on-22-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4202","title":{"rendered":"Re-live a “close run thing” at Horsington Church on 22 November"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel Maclise RA, The Meeting of Wellington and Bl\u00fccher after the Battle of Waterloo, 1861. House of Lords Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2015 marks\u00a0the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, a vital turning point in world history.<\/p>\n

Dr Patrick Mileham, former army officer, academic and historian is giving a talk on the battle in Horsington parish Church \u00a0on Sunday 22nd November at 3pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick, is a member of the Waterloo 200 Committee assisting in the national 200\u00a0th\u00a0anniversary commemorations in 2015. He will explain the events of the three days\u00a0of campaigning leading to the decisive battle at Waterloo, just south of Brussels,\u00a0bringing peace to Europe following years of conflict. As the Duke of Wellington,\u00a0British and Allied Commander in Chief, said the result was a \u201cclose run thing\u201d. The\u00a0lecture will consider why this was so, and how difficult it was to defeat Emperor Na-poleon of France considered by many to be the supreme genius of warfare.<\/p>\n

Followed by a Cream Tea<\/p>\n

Suggested Donation of \u00a38 for Church\u00a0Funds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2015 marks\u00a0the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, a vital turning point in world history. Dr Patrick Mileham, former army officer, academic and historian is giving a talk on the battle in Horsington parish Church \u00a0on Sunday 22nd November at 3pm. Patrick, is a member of the Waterloo 200 Committee assisting in the national … Continue reading “Re-live a “close run thing” at Horsington Church on 22 November”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2770,2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-15M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4249,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}