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TIL Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, who played an important part in the Battle of Waterloo, and was instrumental in defeating Napoleon in 1814, suffered a mental breakdown during the war, lost his sight, and believed that a Frenchman had impregnated him with an elephant.

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