the version i read claims Rothschild sold his stocks and then a rumour was put out (cough cough) the battle was lost and had agents at the exchange buying up the stocks back for pennies ... so the story goes ...
He had an agent there following the battle that was taking place and his job was to relay the message to Rothschild the quickest ! He had the correct info, and gave the market a false momentum signal in the wrong direction, ( what a matador does to a bull - but on a Giga scale ) and what followed was what was engineered to follow. Nowadays, a market operator would do time for that criminal and evil act. No-one mentions for reperations payments to be paid back to the 'economy' ( end its never too late ) - He made massive profits, and probably boasted about it to his other 4 brothers.
my understanding is he also had agents at the exchange to help buy up the stocks on his behalf to avoid attention as the real news was on its way and only had a short time frame to buy up back again .... sound familiar.... ?
He thought of absolutely everything and had his agents interwoven throughout the entire fabric. What a single brain was able to orchestrate, execute & eventually keep was bigger than Google.
If you like that one, try this one [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4YvkZeLrjs[/youtube] 'Entheogenic' to say the least
