The Battle Of Waterloo - 1815
Rothschild and the Carrier Pigeons
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i remembered this from history lessons "some years ago " .
http://searchenginewatch.com/2157641
Quote: Panic gripped Britain in June of 1815, as word reached London that the empire's forces were being routed by Napoleon. The financial markets crashed, as securities dealers frantically unloaded government bonds at fire-sale prices. Amid the chaos, few took note of a banker named Nathan Meyer Rothschild who was going against the trend, quietly but aggressively buying everything he could get his hands on.
A few days later news of Napoleon's catastrophic defeat at Waterloo arrived, and securities prices soared. Rothschild's courage in buying what everyone else shunned made him fabulously wealthy -- but was it really courage? Not really, according to biographies of the banker.
For Rothschild had a "secret weapon" -- a network of agents using carrier pigeons that fed him with a constant stream of news of the battle hours or even days before it arrived by other means. Rothschild's early warning system gave him an advantage that he didn't hesitate to exploit.
i note that this is given scant mention on GOOGLE but is covered in much more detail in the german GOOGLE.DE .
one of many german entries :
http://konmedia4.webmaintainer.de/DE/archiv/bishererschienen/ARCHIV_2_2005/Themenauswahl_02_05/Brieftaube/inhalt_brieftaube.php
