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The Battle of Waterloo 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. The French Imperial Army under the command of Napoleon I was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition .
Booth, John (1815), The Battle of Waterloo: Containing the Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, and Other Relative Documents, with Circumstantial Details, Previous and After the Battle, from a Variety of Authentic and Original Sources : to which is Added an Alphabetical List of the Officers Killed and Wounded, from 15th to 26th ...
Baines, Edward (1818), History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the breaking out of the wars in 1792, to, the restoration of general peace in 1815 (in 2 volumes), vol. 2, Longman, Rees, Orme and Brown, p. 433; Barbero, Alessandro (2006), The Battle: A New History of Waterloo, Walker & Company, ISBN 0-8027-1453-6
WATERLOO, Belgium (AP) — To the victor go the spoils: So Waterloo became synonymous with Napoleon's demise, even if the worst of the battle never happened there. Ignoring the bloodied grounds of ...
The Battle of Waterloo, followed as it was by the advance of the armies of Blücher and Wellington upon Paris, was so decisive in its effects, and so comprehensive in its results, that the great object of the War — the destruction of the power of Napoleon Bonaparte and the restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty under King Louis XVIII on 8 July ...
The 3rd Prussian Brigade, however, which had continually formed the vanguard of the I Corps since the Battle of Waterloo, was too much exhausted by its efforts during the previous day and night, to attempt seriously to molest the d'Erlon Corps during its retreat; a circumstance of which the latter failed not to take advantage.
The Battle: a new history of Waterloo. Walker & Company. ISBN 0-8027-1453-6. Blaison, Capitaine (1911). La Couverture d'une Place Forte en 1815: Belfort et Le Corps de Jura. Paris: Henri Charles Lavauzelle. Bowden, Scott (1983). Armies at Waterloo: a detailed analysis of the armies that fought history's greatest Battle. Empire Games Press.
Present at the Battle of Waterloo, Wellington had 71,257 soldiers available, 3,866 officers and 65,919 other ranks. By the end of the day's fighting the army had suffered 16,084 casualties (3,024 killed, 10,222 wounded and 2,838 missing) a loss of 24.6%.