The French drank café au lait for breakfast. It was essentially a French latte with plenty of milk, a fine companion to a croissant.
Georgiana leafed through The Times. It was no longer fresh off the press, despite Brittany being so close to Britain.
Napoleon had gone out early in the morning to inspect the troops. Everyone else in the entourage, including the civilians, had gone as well, leaving Georgiana alone. She could leisurely drink her coffee while reading the newspaper.
Before Wellington appeared, the British Army's combat effectiveness had also been quite a headache.
The army needed to endure hardship. Before the air force appeared, the navy had been the best-treated branch of service, though that was only relative. The British Navy's food was terrible, far inferior to the navy of France.
The newspaper in her hands still carried the railway company's advertisement recruiting boxers. It was precisely because of the canal companies' obstruction that surveying the Liverpool Railway had been so difficult.
At first, steam engines in the textile industry had merely supplemented water power, and canals also made transport convenient. Building a canal required vast sums of money, which gave rise to "canal speculation." There were canals near cities such as Manchester and Birmingham. Once sturdy railways emerged, the golden age of canals came to an end. Yet air pollution followed in their wake. London, the city of fog, was not merely foggy year-round; it was also filled with untreated soot from burning coal.
There was another deadly smog incident in 1952, which killed several thousand people. In fact, the Clean Air Act had existed long before that. Queen Elizabeth I had forbidden the destruction of trees and the establishment of factories in London's outskirts, but no one listened.
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