NAPOLEON’S THREE SKULLS
There seems some danger of the famous Cotton collection of the Waterloo Relics being broken up. Cotton was a sergeant-major with an eye to the main chance, who almost immediately tlife battle was over set about collecting relics, and soon had an exhibition on the battfield itself. The original version of a very old chestnut was concerned with Cotton as guide to the battlefield. It was said, doubtless without foundation, that he used to point to three skulls saying; “That is the skull of Napoleon when he was a boy, that other his skull when he was a man, and this was his skill when he fought the battle of Waterloo. M
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19261120.2.14
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
115NAPOLEON’S THREE SKULLS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in