Went the Day Well?: Witnessing WaterlooFrom Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author David Crane, this book is about the Britain that fought the battle of Waterloo from pauper to painter, poet to prince, soldier to civilian. Midnight, Sunday, 17 June 1815. There was no town in England that had not sent its soldiers, hardly a household that was not holding its breath, not a family, as Byron put it, that would escape havocs tender mercies at Waterloo, and yet at the same time life inevitably