They were born in the years just after the Napoleonic wars-charlotte was born in the year after Waterloo (1815), the victory of her hero, the Duke of Wellington.

他们是在拿破仑战争刚刚结束的几年中出生的—夏洛蒂出生于滑铁卢之战(1815)第二年，即她心目中的英雄人物惠灵顿公爵大败拿破仑之后。

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Battersea Park evolved from marshy Battersea Fields where, in 1829, Waterloo hero the Duke of Wellington fought a duel (a popular pastime in London's parks), and is where Britain's first asparagus was grown.

BBC: Common people: London's green spaces