Banking on Defeat - The Rothschild Myth

It has been a tale regurgitated time and time again. A story of a rider riding against the elements to deliver the news of Prussia and Britain's defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo to Nathan Rothschild in London, who, in selling stocks, fools other traders into believing Britain was defeated, only to buy the stocks back once the price had plummeted. How much truth is there in the tale, or was it all in fact, a myth?

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