Crater of Mount Tambora
A
gigantic volcanic eruption in Indonesia led to the wet and muddy conditions
which contributed to Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, a
study has suggested. Two months before the battle changed the course of
European history, Mount Tambora erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa,
killing 100,000 people and hurling huge plumes of ash up to 62 miles into the
atmosphere. The electrically-charged ash “short circuited” the ionosphere, the
upper atmospheric layer responsible for cloud formation, researchers from
Imperial College London said. Aug. 23 https://goo.gl/LSz58w
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815,
near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the
Netherlands. A French army under the command of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was
defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition: a British-led Allied
army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and a Prussian army under the
command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt. The battle
marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
A total lunar eclipse on 21 June 1815 drawn for Waterloo has
a powerful Grand Cross straddling the meridian. The Sun was conjunct the star Betelgeuse,
alpha Orion part of the Chinese asterism Tsan, The Great Commander. Diana Rosenberg links this star to “great
historical battles” . Moreover, the Sun forms a T-square with Jupiter on the MC
opposite Mars-Pluto on the IC. Among
other things, this combination can represent a titanic struggle in which one
may overextend oneself and lose everything.
About the major
reason for Napolean’s defeat, historian and theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote:
He (Napolean) and his
supporters do not want to admit that huge mistakes, sheer recklessness, and,
above all, overreaching ambition that exceeded all realistic possibilities,
were the true causes.
The MC [4li] is conjunct Jupiter [1li] and was also the
exact position of Jupiter [4li] when Mount Tambora erupted on 10 April 1815. The MC here and the Jupiter position at the
eruption are amid stars of the Crater [1]. Crater, the Cup, apparently refers to
volcanic craters. Diana Rosenberg writes:
Three major Icelandic eruptions are represented here: these
stars were rising when Oraefajokull volcano erupted in 1727; this was Pluto at
the eruption of Helgafell on Heimaey Island off Iceland, 1973, and the Sun at
the Sep. 1996 lunar eclipse, three days before the subglacial eruption of a
deep chasm under Vatnajokull Glacier flooded the caldera lake; Jupiter in 1815
at Tambora’s huge explosive blowout – the largest explosive eruption of
historical times, surpassing even Krakatau that killed 10,000, 82,000 more died
of hunger and disease when the ash blocked sunlight causing 1816’s “year with
no summer” and several others.
So the stars of Crater on the MC conjunct Jupiter part of the T-square with the eclipse Sun at
the apex in the asterism of the Great Commander become one of the reasons for Napoleon losing the battle!
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