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Show Replying to the question whether any soldiers M who fought in the Napoleon wars ever fought in this country the Tribune answers "yes;" and M stops with that. It should have made a fuller M explanation. Every yeai for the past forty the M story has been circulated that a part of the array M which won Waterloo were defeated at New Or- leans, and this has been reiterated over and over H though New Orleans was fought nearly half a M year before Waterloo. The truth is that General M Papklngham who commanded the Biitish forces M at Now Orleans, and who was killed in that bat- M II tie, was a relative nephew we believe of Well- , I ington, and he and his command fought under f Wellington in Spain when Joseph Bonaparte was trying to hold his throne there. They never I fought against Napoleon, but against the mar- shals that Napoleon sent there to try to save f i the throne for his brother. |
