The Grand Old Duke Traditional Cache
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The grand old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men;
He marched them up to the top of the hill,
And he marched them down again.
And when they were up, they were up;
And when they were down, they were down,
And when they were only half-way up,
They were neither up nor down.
The most likely candidate for this caricature is Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827), the second son of King George III and Commander-in-Chief of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. His one field command of significance was the Flanders Campaign of 1793-4, which resulted in the heavy defeat at the Battle of Tourcoing (1794), followed by his recall to England. Flanders has something of a reputation for being flat, the specific location of the "hill" in the nursery rhyme has been attributed to be the town of Cassel which is built on a hill rising 176 metres (about 570 feet) above the otherwise flat lands of Flanders in northern France.
The cache is a 35mm film can containing logbook only. BYOP.
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(Decrypt)
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