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18th June 1815: Battle of Waterloo heralds the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte

18th June 2022
Tagged as: Army, Belgium, Britain, France, French Revolution, Military, Napoleon, Napoleonic Wars, Prussia, War, Waterloo, Wellington

Combined British and Prussian military forces defeated the French, but Wellington himself said that the battle was ‘the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life’.

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9th June 1815: The ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna signed

9th June 2021
Tagged as: Austria, Britain, Europe, First World War, France, Metternich, Napoleon, Prussia, Russia, Vienna, Waterloo

The ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna was signed on the 9^th June 1815, nine days before Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.

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18th June 1815: Battle of Waterloo heralds the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte

9th June 1815: The ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna signed

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