Mr Urban expands his hero's achievements with some first-class descriptions of the campaign and its battles, but he might have done better to have remembered that patient cobbler in Irun and written a book describing the whole intelligence apparatus available to Wellington.

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But at a deeper level it was a rejection of the industrial achievements of east Belfast's Protestant business class and workers, he says.

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But, despite Mr Brands's enthusiasm for his subject, such achievements still leave Jackson, as democrat and statesman, far short of the class of Abraham Lincoln.

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For example, if an entrepreneur graduated at the top of his class from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, or Caltech, with a host of awards and achievements, it would carry weight with a potential investor.

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