Testing a Waterloo financial conspiracy story

The cited book claims that the Rothschild family used advance knowledge of Waterloo to sell British stock, buy it back cheaply, and gain control of the Bank of England. Parts of its opening biography are recognizable, but its 1750s starting date conflicts with Mayer Amschel Rothschild's birth in 1744, apprenticeship in 1757, and return to the family business in 1763. News and stock transactions moved over hours and days, so the account imports the speed of a modern market into 1815. Its price logic is also reversed: fear of a French victory pushed British stock down, while news of victory made it rise. The Bank of England had existed since 1694 and used rotating governors, which contradicts the story's claim that the family created or simply controlled it after Waterloo. Later statements about controlling French and German finance create further chronological problems, including use of a unified Germany before 1871. Exact dates and institutional mechanics expose a narrative built from real names and incompatible claims.