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83: The Battle of Waterloo 1815
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The Battle of Waterloo, fought in 1815 saw the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.
At the end of the 8 hour struggle nearly 50,000 dead and dying men lay on the battlefield.
Whilst celebrated (in Britain) as a British victory, it’s often forgotten that Wellington’s army was an international army containing Dutch, Belgians & germans. In fact the British troops were actually in the minority.
And despite his victory, Wellington was the first to admit that the battle was a near-run thing; the result could have been very different…
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