Re: VMs: Re: Voynich's 1907 donation to the British Library...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:18 14/03/03 -0500, James A. Landau wrote:
> The story about Nathan Mayer Rothschild (correct spelling) and the Battle 
> of Waterloo is a fiction.  First, Rothschild did not use carrier 
> pigeons.  The Rothschild family had a staff of uniformed (human) couriers 
> who carried messages among the  Rothschild banks in Hesse, Austria, 
> Naples, France, and England.  Second, Nathan Rothschild placed his 
> couriers at the disposal of the Duke of Wellington, and therefore had no 
> news of the Waterloo campaign in advance of anyone else in England.

Like I said - believe it... or don't. :-)

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