‘It’* often said that the Battle of Waterloo was on won the playing fields of Eton.’Explain.
This saying is based on the argument that the values taught to schoolboys in its public schools resulted in Britain’* military success. Eton was the most famous of these schools.
These schools trained English boys for careers in the Military, the Civil Service and the **-the three great institutions of Imperial England.
In actual fact the Napoleonic wars were won because of the economic contribution of the iron works of Scotland and Wales, the mills of Lancashire and the financial houses of the city of London.
