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  • 1812: The U.S. declares war on Great Britain in the name of “Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights,” commencing the War of 1812

  • 1815: Allied troops under the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher defeat Napoleon’s French forces at the Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon is exiled to the isle of St. Helena

  • 1835: William Cobbett dies

  • 1871: Leonid (Nikolaevich) Andreyev is born

  • 1932: Geoffrey Hill is born

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