George H. Snazelle (1848–1912)
How Bill Adams won the battle of Waterloo
London and New York: Samuel French, [1890?]
1890.7.577, front cover

Snazelle was an actor and baritone who developed a one-man entertainment with which he toured Britain, the United States and Australia; his nick-name may have been the origin of the word ‘snazzy’. In this comic monologue, a ‘yarn founded on fact’, the tap-room raconteur Bill Adams tells how Wellington, needing help at Waterloo and having been refused assistance by Sir Garnet Wolseley (born 1833) and Lord Nelson (died 1805), has to rely on Adams to see off the enemy trio of Napoleon, Bonyparty and Blucher.