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Napoleon’s defeat linked to Mt. Tambora’s eruption


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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