In 1815, the five Rothschild brothers would work to supply gold to both Wellington’s army (through Nathan in England) and Napoleon’s army (through Jacob in France;) this began their policy of funding both sides of any given war, war being a massive generator of risk-free debt (but even this strategy is not purely Rothschild and harkens back the Lombards of Venice.) The plan works so well because it doesn’t matter who wins—the loans are given on the guarantee that the victor will honor the debts of the vanquished.

While the Rothschilds fund both sides, they employ the many banks they’ve spread across Europe to create a sort of postal network of secret routes and swift couriers, keeping the family one step ahead of current events. This strategy was employed by many powerful individuals throughout time, including Benjamin Franklin, Sir Francis Dashwood, and Queen Elizabeth’s spymaster, Lord Francis Walsingham. Additionally, these Rothschild couriers would be the only ones allowed to pass through the French and English blockades.

It is said that one of these couriers, a man named “Rothworth”, was able to swiftly relay the news that the Battle of Waterloo was won by the British. As the story goes, Rothworth was able to deliver this news to Nathan Mayer Rothschild, a full 24 hours before Wellington’s own courier.

At that time, British bonds or “consuls” were traded on the floor of the stock exchange. Nathan Mayer Rothschild instructed all his workers on the floor to start selling off consuls, thereby convincing all the other traders that the British had lost the war, so they started selling frantically. Naturally, the consuls plummeted in value, which was when Nathan Mayer Rothschild discreetly instructed his workers to purchase all the consuls they could. Once the news came through that the British had actually won the war, the consuls went up to a level even higher than before the war ended, leaving Nathan Mayer Rothschild with a return of approximately 20-to-1 on his investment!

This brilliant but dastardly maneuver essentially gave the Rothschild family complete control of the British economy, which was now the financial center of the world following Napolean’s defeat, and forced England to set up a new Bank of England.

1815 was the year that Nathan Rothschild would make the frequently quoted statement,

“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.”