09/30/2024
Freemasonry at the Battle of Waterloo: Just finishing a book about Waterloo (end of the Napoleonic wars)
1) Text from a British officer's memoir about accepting surrender of some French soldiers who showed a Masonic sign and he (a Mason) accepting the surrender because of the Masonic sign
2) A painting of the Duke of Wellington shaking hands after the battle with his ally, Marshal Blucher, and it's a Masonic handshake