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Battle ofWaterloo

1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo, 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 Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, under the command of the Duke of Wellington. The other comprised three corps of the Prussian army under Field Marshal von Blรผcher. The battle was known contemporarily as the Battle of Mont Saint-Jean in France or La Belle Alliance in Prussia. Upon Napoleon's return to power in March 1815, many states that had previously opposed him formed the Seventh Coalition and hurriedly mobilised their armies. Wellington's and Blรผcher's armies were cantoned close to the northeastern border of France. Napoleon planned to attack them separately in the hope of destroying them before they could join in a coordinated invasion of France with other members of the coalition. Wikipedia