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

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