== Section on myths? == 

 I wonder if it's worth adding one?  

 Eg:- 

 - There was a sunken road which the French cavalrymen were unaware of and which caused terrible losses when they fell into. This was actually made up by Victor Hugo; the Allied cavalry had no trouble negotiating the sunken road.  

 - The 92nd Highlanders grabbed the Scots Greys' stirrups as they charged. This one seems to have been made up by the Victorian painter Lady Butler; there are no contemporary accounts of it.  

 - La Belle Alliance means the beautiful alliance. It doesn't; it means the beautiful wedding-ring. Beautiful alliance would be le bel alliance.