Battle of Waterloo.  “I had never yet heard of a battle in which everybody was killed; but this seemed likely to be an exception, as all were going by turns.' The battlefield is a short, ten miles drive south from NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium,; through bucolic country which reminded this Blogger of the Amish country in Pennsylvania. The field itself is dominated by this Mayan pyramid of a monument, with a British Lion at its apex. On this field, on June 18, 1815, 200,000 men met in mortal combat. It is a small field for a massive battle, merely five square miles. It was the bloodiest battle on European soil since the Romans had slaughtered the Gauls,and Hannibal had slaughtered the Romans at Cannae. It was bloodier than Agincourt or Borodino. It was the bloodiest battle on European soil until those moronic battles of World War I, when demented Generals hurled their troops at machine guns; in the hope that the machine guns would run out of bullets. The battle was th...