The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 in present-day Belgium between the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte and the allied forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington, supported later in the day by the Prussian army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Napoleon’s defeat ended his attempt to regain power in Europe and brought the Napoleonic Wars to a final conclusion. Background The Battle of Waterloo was the decisive engagement of the Hundred Days, the brief period in 1815 during which Napoleon returned to power after his exile. ...