Read The Following Anecedote And Give Examples From Modern Life Illustrating How A Catastrophe Occured Because Of Some Insignificant Event.

Napoleon's army was defeated at Waterloo because one of his strongest units of cavalry was misdirected by a peasant who jerked his head the wrong direction. The road taken led to a great ditch made deeper by the torrential rains of that week. As they charged foward to attack Wellington's entrenched army, the whole unit, line by line, plunged into the ditch of Ohain.

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