The Rothschild-Waterloo Hoax — 1846 Pamphlet Origin
Mathieu-Dairnvaell's *Histoire Edifiante et Curieuse* + Engels Endorsement
The ubiquitous claim: Nathan Mayer Rothschild personally witnessed Waterloo (1815), rushed to Belgian coast, bullied a fisherman to ferry him across the Channel in a thunderstorm, arrived in London 24 hours before official word of Wellington's victory.
Reality — absolute fiction. Zero documentary basis.
Specific origin: 1846 Parisian antisemitic pamphlet titled *Histoire Edifiante et Curieuse de Rothschild 1er, Roi des Juifs* ('Edifying and Curious History of Rothschild I, King of the Jews'). Authored by left-wing polemicist Georges-Marie Mathieu-Dairnvaell under pseudonym 'Satan.'
Catalyzing event: July 1846 Fampoux train crash (Northern line, Rothschild investments) killed 57. Mathieu-Dairnvaell capitalized on public outrage to publish the pamphlet weeks later, framing Rothschilds as 'evil genius' of French people.
Engels endorsement: Friedrich Engels praised the pamphlet in the British Chartist newspaper *The Northern Star* as 'a new mode of attack... in the right direction' against capitalism's heads.
Real Rothschild history: Nathan did have exceptional courier network + received Waterloo news early; took information to British government (who initially dismissed it); profited modestly from existing long positions on British victory. No market crash. No massive bottom-buying frenzy.
180-year metamorphosis: this 1846 work of political fiction became the foundational 'proof' of Khazarian financial dominance deployed by Swindoll Jr. + genre.
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