FROM PIGEONS TO ONLINE PROFITS
In 1815, Napoleon had just escaped from Elba.
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After decades of warfare, Europe thought they had banished the French corporal forever, only to discover that he had escaped back to France, raised an army and was marching toward Paris.
In London, the financial markets were teetering. If Napoleon succeeded in returning to power, share prices would collapse. Wellington had been dispatched to stop Napoleon and would soon meet the foe face to face in Waterloo. How the battle went would dictate how the world would be shaped. All of Europe waited nervously.
In London, an inventor with an idea came to see Lord Rothschild, one of the richest and most powerful men of his age. The inventor had brought with him the cutting edge technology of the early 19th Century – a pigeon. (more…)
