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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.
The Battle of Waterloo was a conflict on June 18, 1815, during the Hundred Days, the period from Napoleon’s escape from exile to the return of Louis XVIII. 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 ...
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.
The Battle of Waterloo was fought by a French army under Emperor Napoleon I against two armies of the Seventh Coalition; an Anglo-Dutch-German army under the Duke of Wellington and a Prussian army under Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.
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.
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. It was the decisive battle of its age.
That's exactly what happened to Napoleon, near a village named Waterloo in Belgium June 18, 1815, when the 46-year-old French general-turned-emperor lost the climactic battle of his storied career at the hands of British and Prussian opponents.