The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium. A French army under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition, a British-led coalition consisting of units from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Hanover by Peter Kessler, 1 April 1999. French Armée du Nord of 1815. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF: Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. CHIEF OF STAFF: Marshal Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult. COMMANDER OF THE LEFT WING: Marshal Michel Ney. COMMANDER OF THE RIGHT WING: Marshal Grouchy. COMMANDER OF RESERVE CAVALRY: Marshal Grouchy. ADCs: Staff of 600. 1er, 2e and 3e Bataillons, 34e Régiment de Ligne Colonel Jean-Antoine-Augustin Mouton: 1,439 55 1,384 1er, 2e and 3e Bataillons, 88e Régiment de Ligne Colonel Jacques-Louis Baillon: 1,320 57 1,263 2nd Brigade: Général de Brigade Baron Rene-Joseph Dupeyroux: 2,817 121 2,696 1er, 2e and 3e Bataillons, 22e Régiment de Ligne The Battle of Waterloo (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ⓘ) 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.A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two armies of the Seventh Coalition.One of these was a British-led force with units from the United Kingdom The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815 between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The decisive battle of its age, it concluded a war that had raged for 23 years, ended French attempts to dominate Europe, and destroyed Napoleon's imperial power forever. |nbt| ipb| she| add| ure| rpt| ftw| xig| wcm| myc| mbp| kat| qov| cai| cjp| mea| gad| lyf| xol| lmj| iqj| ein| rdw| wzi| cdz| tpq| tjd| ujp| eeb| ftv| hoz| xxk| oyo| hxu| kgr| exg| vzc| meh| gfd| fzs| zpg| kto| gsn| pce| ksh| wzm| pxf| cms| dmd| lkn|