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Battle of Waterloo, (June 18, 1815) Final defeat of Napoleon and French forces in the Napoleonic Wars.The battle was fought near Waterloo village, south of Brussels, during the Hundred Days of Napoleon’s restoration, by Napoleon’s 72,000 troops against the duke of Wellington’s combined Allied army of 68,000 aided by 45,000 Prussians under Gebhard von Blücher.
Oct 29, 1970 · Waterloo: Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk. With Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins. Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
Dec 10, 2017 · March into the legendary Battle of Waterloo and experience the largest reenacted battle of its kind. On the 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat ...
Oct 13, 2023 · The Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) was the last major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), fought by a French army under Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) against two armies of the Seventh Coalition. Waterloo resulted in the end of both Napoleon's career and the First French Empire and is often considered one of history's most important battles.
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon’s French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon’s imperial power forever.
Waterloo Battlefield, location, 3 miles (5 km) south of Waterloo, Belgium, where, on June 18, 1815, the Battle of Waterloo took place, marking Napoleon’s final defeat. In this battle, the British duke of Wellington’s 68,000 allied forces, including British, Dutch, Belgian, and German troops, and some 45,000 Prussians led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, overcame a 72,000-strong French ...
The Waterloo campaign (15 June – 8 July 1815) was fought between the French Army of the North and two Seventh Coalition armies, an Anglo-allied army and a Prussian army. Initially the French army had been commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, but he left for Paris after the French defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
