When:
June 18, 2023 all-day
2023-06-18T00:00:00-06:00
2023-06-19T00:00:00-06:00
Where:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/battle_waterloo_01.shtml
June 18, 1815. Date of the decisive defeat of Emperor Napoleonand his army of 74,000 soldiers by a combined Anglo-Allied (68,000 troops) and Prussian army (70,000 troops) led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blcher. The bloody battle in a gentle valley near Waterloo a municipality then annexed to the French Republic, now part of French-speaking Belgium ended the French First Empire and the career of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the greatest commanders and statesmen in history, and ushered in half a century of international peace and stability in Europe.
