Blog category: Alexander Macnab
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Were there Canadians at the Battle of Waterloo?
June 12, 2015
If you’re ever visiting the Duke of Wellington’s tomb in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, take a moment to look for the bust of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister. Nearby you will find a plaque sacred to the memory of Captain Alexander Macnab, a Canadian who died in the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. Macnab was not the only Canadian at the battle.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte