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- At Waterloo in Belgium on June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte suffers defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history.
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The Battle of Waterloo (Dutch: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ⓘ) was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.
- 18 June 1815; 209 years ago (1815-06-18)
- Coalition victory
Nov 6, 2009 · The Battle of Waterloo was a humiliating defeat for Napoleon, crushing his imperial dreams of ruling Europe and bringing the bloody Napoleonic Wars to a final end.
Sep 21, 2024 · Fought near Waterloo village, Belgium, it pitted Napoleon's 72,000 French troops against the duke of Wellington’s army of 68,000 (British, Dutch, Belgian, and German soldiers) aided by 45,000 Prussians under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Napoleon was defeated, and he was exiled for the final time.
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- The Battle of Waterloo marked the final defeat of Napoleon. On June 22, 1815, four days after losing the conflict, Napoleon abdicated as emperor of...
- Napoleon, emperor of France, launched a series of wars that temporarily ended in 1814, when he was forced to abdicate. Exiled to Elba, he left the...
- Following secondary battles, the Battle of Waterloo began on June 18, 1815. Four French attacks on the allied army’s centre failed to break through...
During the Hundred Days campaign in 1815, Wellington commanded another British-led army which, together with the Prussian Army under Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Wellington's battle record is exemplary; he ultimately participated in some 60 battles during the course of his military career.
- When Napoleon met his Waterloo, he wasn’t actually in Waterloo. Napoleon's Bloodless Coup. In spite of its moniker, the battle was waged three miles south of the town of Waterloo in the villages of Braine-l’Alleud and Plancenoit along the Mont Saint Jean Ridge.
- British troops comprised only a minority of Wellington’s forces. The Duke of Wellington may have been British, but the army he led into battle was a multi-national force with soldiers from Ireland, Wales and Scotland (Wellington himself was born in Ireland and of Anglo-Irish ancestry.)
- A defeated Napoleon considered an escape to the United States. Napoleon's Final Exile. Following the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon returned to Paris, where he was forced to abdicate on June 22, 1815.
- Wet weather caused a fatal delay by Napoleon. Heavy rain fell upon the region around Waterloo on the night before the battle. Napoleon’s artillery was among his greatest strengths, but the French emperor feared that the soggy and muddy conditions would bog down the advance of his men, horses and heavy guns.
Feb 9, 2010 · At Waterloo in Belgium on June 18, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte suffers defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington, bringing an end to the Napoleonic era of European history.
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Wellesley faced and defeated many of Napoleon's marshals as the commander in chief of the Anglo-Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War, but his best known battle was at Waterloo in 1815 where he led an Anglo-Allied force to a decisive victory over Napoleon.
